>Most if not all of the technical questions posted on this forum are left >unanswered, but Sun's >engineers do find time to engage in non-technical >matters. Perhaps most of the trashings >about Sun are well justified.
The near-total apathy that I have sensed from the overwhelming majority of Sun's engineers toward OpenSolaris to me serves as a clear warning as to whether Sun is really committed to opensource. Talk is cheap. & cheap talks invite resentments. To induce interests, someone must show actions. While the GPL'ed Linux kernel does not allow proprietary device drivers to be included in the kernel itself, they can be easilly added as loadable modules. A number of yum/apt repositories have been constructed to make loading these modules painless. Several Linux distributions (e.g., Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, etc.) even pre-load those proprietary drivers, thus erasing one of the main advantages CDDL might have over the GPL. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
