John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> <Change of perspective>
>
> Are we all confusing the Consolidation called "ON" that lives
> under the OpenSolaris banner with the whole set of potential
> consolidations? Just because the ON consolidation is saddled with
> compatibility issues with the closed stuff does not mean that
> other (new) consolidations would be. i.e., there is no reason
> that there couldn't be a consolidation created for new stuff
> that layers on top of ON, and that consolidation could easily
> set expectations that it will do frequent Major releases.
The most important thing people need to understand is that
adding something that is closed source and cannot be redistributed
or ported to other (new) platforms is a deviation from OpenSolaris.
All discussions need to keep in mind that it is not only important
to avoind deviations from former releases of Sun Solaris but also
to avoid deviations from OpenSolaris in general.
Sun Solaris includes a closed source implementation of ksh88 and
this _is_ already a deviation from OpenSolaris as long as there
is no free alternative.
Jörg
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