On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 8:22 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: >> But please note that at the time Solaris 8 was created, Sun was just in a >> state >> where the managers believed in closed source. With Solaris 8, there are only >> thre OSS packages: >> >> - mkisofs >> - gzip >> - bash > > Even Solaris 8 had a lot more than just 3 open source packages - there was > also > perl, sendmail, the X Window System, tcsh, and quite a few more, and work was > already underway then to adopt GNOME. The majority was still closed, but > there wasn't some vast conspiracy to believe closed was better. This is an > OS > with BSD origins after all, and a company releasing sources like NFS and > contributing to projects like X11 back in the 80's, before "open source" was > defined. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
Until this day we cannot even re-distribute a binary version of Xsun, yet you call Solaris 8 ' s Xserver "Open Source"? It got lots of proprietary and closed-src entensions since 1993, as one single example take the Xsun ddx driver framework. Otherwise: Ok. %martin _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
