John Plocher wrote:
> James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:
>> .. Thus "FOSS is special."
>
> I believe FOSS *IS* Special - because doing a good job of integrating
> general cross-platform FOSS into OpenSolaris is actually HARDER than
> integrating something invented by the community specifically for the
> OS itself.
So it's not the FOSS license that makes it special - it's the external
control, for which we may or may not have some contribution to, that's
the difference. Is there really any difference in the architecture
of integrating Xorg's open source nvidia driver vs. Nvidia's proprietary
driver? In neither case do we have control - we can influence both
upstream sources to make changes, but once they publish a version, we
are limited in the amount of changes we can or should make as we
integrate it to Solaris.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
