On Friday 02 June 2006 07:38 am, James Carlson wrote: > I don't see how having an accumulation of source code that's known to > work on a particular operating system (and some of which that might > have needed to be tweaked to do so) is itself a bad thing. In fact, I > think it's helpful for those who are building distributions.
I agree, it is EXCELLENT! What is bad is that somehow it is being twisted by folks such as yourself that OpenSolaris includes those projects as well, and this is just not so. OpenSolaris is the open components as we know it today, it is what is ON, for the most part. I say for the most part as if Sun wants to do the write thing wtih the community, they will rid themself of all proprietary pieces, and at the end of the day OpenSolaris will have no closed binaries that ship with it. The fact that what *IS* OpenSolaris is used by other distributions, Sun's SX or Solaris in itself, doesn't make those packages that support those systems to be a part of OpenSolaris. I only take exception with this one piece, but it is an important concept that not only Sun, but the community must realize so a truely open system can be developed. When JDS and X are putback into the OpenSolaris components of Solaris. then to me they will be a part of OpenSolaris. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
