> > Yeah, while I was at OOW, I talked to the product manager for Solaris who told > me that the source code will be released when there is an official release of > Solaris 11. So basically, we have to wait until it's all baked in before a > code > drop. So the only way we'll get to see new features is through Solaris 11 > Express which will just be a binary distribution with a pkg repo to work with. > >
It is really cool, but I wondered if we could move forward and ask ORACLE for their bi-weekly binary builds? I believe that community is more than ready to maintain FLOSS pkg repo, and make update for each new build. > Personally, it's nice having the code out there for developers and what not. > But > at the same time, I understand Oracle's concerns. Having every new feature and > fix out there for the whole world to see just invites the competition to > reverse > engineer and compete better with Solaris which is not what Oracle wants. > Oracle > wants the honor of releasing a baked release to "one up" the competition and > keep the advantage on their side. Nothing wrong with that from a business > perspective. Not like you see Apple, Coke, or McDonalds giving out recipes on > their next big thing. > > What I would like is for the community to be able to continue to file bugs and > work with the engineers to fix things at least. But support is also a revenue > generating business, so it's unlikely. > > Now from a licensing perspective, I was told by this same product manager that > the OTN license does enable us to use Solaris 11 Express, Solaris 11, and > Solaris 10 for personal use (development, education, evaluation, hobby, etc.) > for free. It's only when you use those products for production that they want > you to pay. I did give him feedback on the debates here in the forums about > how > the use cases needed to be spelled out more clearly and he agreed. And I think > that's pretty reasonable and in-line with how Oracle handles its other product > lines where you can download them and run them for free until you're using > them > in production. So to all the FUD spreaders or those over-reacting and thinking > they have to switch to Linux, you can put the breaks on that and take the > tin-foil hats and penguin suits off. You can still have your Solaris for > free:) It is interesting that I asked few of ORACLE engineers regarding Solaris 11. They couldn't tell me whether I could use Solaris 11 for non-commercial purposes(i.e. testing, educational, development, etc.) for free or I have to pay licensesimilar to any other commercial software. Uros Nedic _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
