On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 12:02 PM, Edward Ned Harvey <sola...@nedharvey.com> wrote: > Got any facts you like to share with the world?
You've got them already. Isn't this a fact, that Oracle stated a zillion words how Linux is wonderful, how customers feel orgasm out of it and how much investment Oracle is gonna put into that? Isn't this is another real fact, that Oracle stated a zillion words how Solaris on SPARC is wonderful and how much investment they're gonna put into that as well as in SPARC hardware? But if so, isn't this is an actual fact, that Oracle said *no* *single* *word* about OpenSolaris et al? They didn't say they will invest or support or encourage or use as a training or such. They simply re-typed what was on Sun's website: OpenSolaris is a free version, blablabla, download from here -> opensolaris.org/get etc. To me it sounds this way: "You, non-payed folks, commit-commit and we will simply reference to opensolaris.org from Oracle.com to keep you together and you won't be scared. Then we will grab it anyway and will make *our* Solaris for SPARC and x86 (i.e. payed version) brilliant. But we will give you 0 penny for OpenSolaris funding and will never commit our stuff, since it is not GPL. Eventually, you will be forced to either use BSD, switch to Linux back or buy our Solaris, because ZFS or other projects will fail on your version as hell". One fact is clear: Kenai officially will be closed "for better user experience" and then re-opened. In other words, Kenai simply gone, unless you pay $$$ to the Oracle. I *really* want to hear I am wrong, but not likely... I would not rush to push OpenSolaris anymore, though I did it really a lot. Probably was a mistake. :-( -- Kind regards, BM Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-help mailing list opensolaris-help@opensolaris.org
