Kaiwai Gardiner wrote:
What Sun wants are millions of developers to port to Solaris x86 out of the goodness of their own heart - newsflash, the world doens't work that way, people port when either they see the possibility of cash rolling in, or when the CEO pays a visit to pay for the porting.
I thought that was the whole point of the Free and Open Source Software movement. Isn't that exactly the argument the FOSS advocates use when pushing for things to be open sourced? Closed source is bad because a company might go under, or they might not do what their customers want, or port to the architectures that their customers want. How many times did we hear that Sun should open source Solaris so that people could port it to other architectures?
In fact, isn't that exactly what Joerg, Jurgen, Dennis, Pete, and the other dozens of Open Solaris developers are doing?
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