Gary wrote:
> I would doubt Oracle would continue to let licensed binary bits of Solaris be
> a continued part of an open source project.
Why? Other Oracle products contain or are released as open source -
BerkeleyDB, InnoDB, Oracle Enterprise Linux - why would Solaris be
different?
> Solaris 10 was developed when Solaris 9 was released, and they didn't need a
> development branch for Solaris 10.
Bullshit. The Solaris 10 development branch was created when Solaris 9
froze for release, just as a development branch for the new release was
created at the freeze of every previous Solaris release. That branch
was even publicly released as "Solaris Express" for people who wanted
to use it or test it before the formal Solaris 10 beta program began.
The difference with OpenSolaris is simply much greater public access
and exposure to this development branch - both in source code and
binary form.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [email protected]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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