Alan Coopersmith wrote: >> Nobody here has yet explained how Sun managed to legitimately >> open-source code without getting permission from Novell. > > And no one here is likely to divulge the contents of confidential > contracts signed between Sun and other companies either. Sun's > lawyers and execs know the details, most of the rest of us don't.
100% correct. I wrote the software used to manage the Legal Due Diligence we did before we opened, Solaris, and I certainly don't know the details of all the contracts, nor do I particularly wish to. I've seen a lot of statements made both here and elsewhere on the web, some of them are based on published fact, but many of them are no more than speculation. I'm slightly concerned by some of the statements made on lists hosted on opensolaris.org, because people may assume (because of the source) that they carry more weight than they actually do. I'd therefore request that we just stick to what we *do* know and leave the speculation to other people. -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
