You're more then likely right, look at GNU all it took was one mans Kernel and viola....
Now most UNIX(not including FreeBSD/OpenBSD) in comparison don't have a fighting chance on smaller systems and reside mostly in niche markets. On 1 November 2010 21:18, BM <bogdan.maryn...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 1:32 AM, Apostolos Syropoulos > <asyropou...@yahoo.com> wrote: > >> this discussion is pointless - imo. > > > > I totally agree. IMHO, we should not care about what happens > > to Oracle. > > Errrm, we actually should. :-) > > If you excuse me few ¥¥¥ in current point-less discussion, then since > Snorcle is making their closed Solaris in a fashion like "A boot > loader to their database" (© one great man, somewhere on IRC), then > people will realize that this distribution is not really a generic > purpose OS and also is so impotent and limited that is just a steaming > pile of garbage without upgrading it to a real Solaris for lots of > money. It will take time, of course, but eventually what they (people) > will do next? Right, they will start looking for a free *similar* > alternatives. Where they will go? Right, they will come right here and > download our "Dogs food" (© another great man, somewhere on IRC). > But... surprise! we are on Illumos and Illumos is a fork. Fork, which > has (and will have more and more) differences than Snorcle's > handicraft. Then people will quickly recognize that they are totally > OK on PostgreSQL in most cases which is ~97.8% of all world projects > (apparently, in Germany folks already throwing away Oracle DB > replacing with PgSQL, as far as I know), they will use PostgreSQL and > OI or other versions of Illumos-based, I think. > > *Therefore* we have to care, I think, just type of "care" is > different: make *our* distro better and make sure it is not "Dogs > food" anymore. :-) Actually, I am happy that Oracle is doing it wrong > — things will be better for Illumos and for OI. Not right tomorrow, > but with a time — yes. Also I think Illumos will be better Solaris, > for sure. Just maybe they have to not bloody fight between each other, > but encourage instead, which is not really OI's mission to be a > referee there. :-) > > ^D > > -- > Kind regards, BM > > Things, that are stupid at the beginning, rarely ends up wisely. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
