Jensen Lee wrote:
And by the way, due to this mess with OpenSolaris, I do not think I will ever buy Sun hardware in the future. But most importantly, being a professional, I will refrein from advising anyone to buy Sun hardware. I used to recommend it as an investment ... what a shame! No wonder why Sun is loosing money.
Professionals like me have lost confidence in the company.
This is ridiculous. Sun's hardware and software support of the IFB/JFB
family
of graphics cards has continued *way* past what any other company would
provide.
There have been recent software enhancements for customers who have made
requests
and hardware service contracts are honored with actual spares, not a forced
upgrade to new product (Vista - cough!). I have seen no requests from
customers
for IFB/JFB X.Org/OpenSolaris support -- just the opposite, they want
continued support
for Xsun on Solaris 8 and 9. If you are an enterprise customer who
wants support
for long term deployment, what we've done with IFB/JFB is a shining example
of why you would want to continue to do business with Sun.
Sun is bound by its agreements with the IP owner. INAL, but the
agreements are very specific on use and restrict derived works.
Even if a customer asked for X.Org/OpenSolaris support, no engineer
could begin work until the lawyers on both sides agreed on the scope
of derived works.
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