Erast Benson wrote: >>Then allow me to add a data point: the CDDL was a -- and perhaps the -- >>major reason that Apple went ahead with a DTrace port (and apparently a ZFS >>port as well) to Leopard. Apple told us in no uncertain terms that >>the GPL would have been a non-starter. Does that mean that a dual license >>would have also been a non-starter? Hard to say -- but one can absolutely >>say that (1) the CDDL was critical to Apple's adoption, and that (2) Apple's >>adoption of OpenSolaris technology has been hugely validating for >>OpenSolaris. >> >> > >i'm not sure this data point applicable. Apple is just another company, >not a community. >
You miss the point, someone (anyone, individual, company, whatever) has seen the value in a piece of open source Solaris code and taken it on board. They will modify it, expose it to a wider audience, extol its virtues and hopefully even improve it and we will see the benefit. Isn't that what this 'community' wants? Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
