On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 10:36 PM, bsd <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
you're confusing opensolaris with opensolaris the distribution. opensolaris is a set of consolidations and communities around them. most of the code in those consolidations is indeed opensource check for example the ON consolidation http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+onnv/ or the X consolidation http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Project+x-cons/ Opensolaris the distribution is a sun project and while it is the result of project indiana inside the opensolaris community, most of it was driven by sun's business need. Finally, lets say youre right and both opensolaris the community and opensolaris the distribution were a merketing stunt from sun. so what? what's the problem with that? i think that not only was it a perfectly valid move but has benefited a lot of us greatly. we can not see the guts of the best os in the planet. Solaris 10 was before opensolaris was released and it is of no concern to the opensolaris community > > 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] > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
