Tim Bradshaw wrote: > On 13 Jun 2009, at 12:29, Dr. David Kirkby wrote: > >> I believe if Sun make some public access machines available, there >> would >> be a benefit to Sun, and would hopefully avoid a lot of the GNUisms >> one >> sees in software. Whether the cost would outweigh the benefit I have >> no >> idea. There is obviously the cost of power, hardware and staff to >> run it. > > I guess we probably should just agree to differ about that. I really > don't think people who can't be bothered to download & install a free > copy of Solaris (in a VM, so with no hardware cost in almost all > cases) are interested in fixing stuff on some platform other than > their favoured one.
I guess we will have to agree to differ. I've no problem with that. I once reported a Solaris specific bug to some developer, who replied "As long as it builds on Redhat 8, that is good enough for me". I never understood why he bothered making the code publicly available in that case! _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@sqlite.org http://sqlite.org:8080/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
