> On 7/21/05, UNIX admin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Actually, SuSE's RPM update system uses special patch > RPMs that are > not the entire software subsystem over again.
They were working on it. > Possibly because of the "Linux community" there is a > large set of free > software available for any Operating System community > to use. We have > them and many others to thank for the resources. > We're all in this > together, let's not take a divisionist attitude. This is not true. Before Linux, there was Solaris. And it was the main development platform for Freeware. The biggest projects, like for example the GIMP, ran and were developed on Solaris. This was years before anybody even heard of Linux. I still remember running the latest bleeding edge build of GIMP on Solaris 2.5.1. On SPARC, no less. > I'm sorry, but that's wrong. OpenSolaris was released > to "share", and > the terms of the license don't say anything about > what you're ranting > on. While I personally may not agree with the view of > taking the > Solaris kernel and marrying it to a completely GNU > userland, that > doesn't mean that it "wasn't released for that". It > was released for > whatever folks want to do with it. Look past the sentences and read the fine print. Read the blogs of the Sun executives. CDDL may not say it, but it is clear why Solaris has been released to the public. It's a purely political move with the aim to sell more Sun HW (which is fine by me, since it's good HW). It doesn't take a rocket scientist, just little attention to detail. Let's stop pretending that we're all gonna have some smores and sing 'kumbayah'. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
