Meik Hellmund wrote On 09/03/07 08:12,: > Just to avoid misunderstandings: > I - and other Linux people on this list - did not ask Sun to > waste their time and support dozens of Linux distros. We asked for > open-sourcing > it in order to do this (much better as we can to it now) ourselves. > *That's* the point of open source. > Of course I also hope that this request will not drive Sun out of business -:)
Open sourcing the large collection of code that comprises the Sun Ray software product will take quite a bit of resources. (We haven't been given any extra to do wholesale open sourcing, by the way.) Within the Sun Ray development group, we have to prioritize what we do based on the ROI. From my point of view (my opinion, not necessarily my employer's), the ROI on other things we're working on, like multi-media improvements, is much higher. At least that's what the customers who actually buy Sun Rays are telling us. (I can't think of any who say they won't buy Sun Rays because we don't open source the product.) I would venture to say (again, my opinion, not that of my employer) that eventually we will manage to release the Sun Ray source code. It's just going to take time. As for a making SRSS run in non-global zones, that is a distinctly non-trivial task, since we require the ability to do root-privileged things, like create device nodes and run the X server, which at least initially runs as root. Again, our resources are deployed on higher priority tasks. Kent _______________________________________________ SunRay-Users mailing list [email protected] http://www.filibeto.org/mailman/listinfo/sunray-users
