Erast Benson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:37 +1200, Glynn Foster wrote: >>> One problem I have is that whenever corporate gets their minds around >>> products, they start to associate revenue streams with them. OpenSolaris >>> should not be thought of in that regard, and more to the point, Sun >>> should focus their marketing and revenue streams around Solaris which is >>> their product. This is similar to the relation between RHES and Fedora >>> for Red Hat, and I see Ubuntu being much different than Fedora in that >>> regard, isn't Ubuntu a business/company? >> There's absolutely nothing stopping Sun (or any other vendor) from >> potentially >> taking an OpenSolaris release and offering support for it. > > Will Indiana distro continue to re-distribute non-redistributable > binaries as SXCR does? Only Sun so far has rights to do that. > > Another problem is closed binaries. Only Sun has source code for it.. > How do you think "any other vendor" can offer support independently from > Sun?
I personally think it's a high priority to figure some of that out - any eventual OpenSolaris base distribution needs to be made entirely of open bits, it may just take a while to get there. Glynn _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
