I'll wait for the hate messages after I post this. I personally don't get the Solaris/OpenSolaris distributions. Sure, I understand when Sun said that OpenSolaris was open source (although most of it is released under binary license agreements), and that OpenSolaris is "supposed" to be the RHEL/Fedora model for Solaris 10 development.
However, I personally see OpenSolaris as a marketing gimmick. For one, see open binary licenses in place of source code. Two, what is even the need for a development model like RHEL/Fedora? OpenBSD and FreeBSD don't offer a OpenBSD-Open or FreeBSD-Open. They simply have current, stable, and release. It would have been much simpler, in my opinion, to have a Solaris 10-release, Solaris 10-stable, and Solaris 10-current. Sun released Solaris 10 for free so there wasn't any reason they couldn't have followed the current, stable, release model. Instead they opted for a marketing gimmick which is not going as planned. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
