oops meant that to go to everyone.
On 8/22/05, James Dickens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/22/05, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >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. > > > your right talk is cheap... code talks.. Sun has released 35 million > lines of code in 8 million files... that speaks volumes. That is just > one project that sun has released code from. OpenOffice was released > as well. There are also many other projects that have been donated to > OpenSource. Sun has also made numerous put backs to the opensource > movement. Sun has donated code to projects that run on other > platforms. > > The GPL limits over projects that are not GPL from sharing code. BSD > can't use GPL code. Linux is not just limiting code, but it is also > limiting fixes so that it plays nice with other OS's. Take for example > NFS, Linux as a NFS server for other OS's is broken, but since it > works on Linux no one is interested in fixing it. Does this make Linux > non opensource friendly? > > > James Dickens > uadmin.blogspot.com > > > 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] > > > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
