On 03/04/07, Dirk Wetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Matt, On 31.03.2007 07:22, Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > Hi, > > Just having a look around; along with hardware support, I thought it > would be best to help provide a 'link database' to link up customer > needs to solutions that exist for Solaris. > > Case in point, https://shop.fluendo.com/ who sell currently support for > WMA/WMV/Mp3 playback for Solaris x86/SPARC - and from what I understand, > the compresssion side of the equation will be arriving soon. > > Not only will this help first time users in regars to helping them > resolve support issues relating to multimedia, it'll also provide a good > platform in which Solaris solution provides can directly contact > customers and vice versa, without needing to navigate the beaucracy that > is Sun - if this provides free publicitly, hopefully it'll entice more > vendors to come on board and provide Solaris editions of their software. > > What does everyone else thing? Looks to me like a commercial license, this is not the idea of Open Source Software (OSS)! For the "end customer Solaris" choosing a proprietary add on is a political issue Sun has to decide. You certainly will set up the free software community which would be happy having something they can use for their free version of OpenSolaris and which is free of rights like real OSS tools like xine, mplayer/mencoder, lame, ffmpeg, vlc, available and running under Solaris, Linux, BSD, OSX and partly even Windows.
I haven't said that it should be bundled with the opensource version of OpenSolaris - the issue is pairing up what people want in terms of compatibility to what the market is providing in terms of products - in this case, WMA/WMV which is available on Solaris x86 (and in the future, will be available with encoding support too). It isn't a 'all the opensource way or the highway' - with that sort of attitude, you really think OpenSolaris is going to attract the mindshare in regards to third party software vendor support and third party hardware support? that is what has stuffed Linux up; their dogmatic, zealoted approach to OpenSource - you either go to the extreme of one direction (FSF and Stallmans views) or you go in the opposit direction (Microsoft). The point *I* am trying to get accross is simply this; OpenSolaris *SHOULD* be a *new* direction; a direction where by closed and opensource can work together towards to improving the OpenSolaris experience over all, be it on the desktop, server or laptop. Matthew
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