On 8/22/05, W. Wayne Liauh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >
The eye of the beholder I suppose. I've seen anything but apathy. People seem to assume that no response = purposefully ignoring. Most of the SUN folks I see have a lot on their plates. Replying to a non-technical post takes far less time than involving one's self in replying to a technical one. > 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. Except that newer versions of the kernel continue to place kernel APIs under a GPL only license, which prevents drivers that used to work from continuing to work. Interfaces declared GPL are only useable by GPL or compatible licensed modules. So, the benefit stands in my mind. Not only that, the kernel maintainers are actively removing any interfaces that they perceive as only benefiting binary drivers. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
