"James Mansion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> *I* think the Linux 'model' is flawed. Take away the amateurs,
> and you have a small number of full time engineers, who are
> in Linux' case diluted by ineffective management and lack of
> shared purpose. Sun is in a *good* position. Why pander to
> the amateur masses? They won't make Solaris better through
> code contribution.
OpenSolaris has one big advantage over Linux. It is not driven by a single
despot but by people who are predictable. Not all things are optimal right
now but the OGB will help to make things better.
In the long term, OpenSolaris will win.
> It *would* help to make Open Solaris buildable and maleable
> by ISVs for particular application scenarios, particularly
> embedded server devices, but once again that's a professional
> contribution.
I would like to see OpenSolaris buildable on OpenSolaris.
This needs that some more pieces of code need to be at least
redistributable.
Jörg
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