On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 13:22, UNIX admin wrote: > 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'.
Since you are neither a Sun executive nor a Sun employed Solaris engineer I don't believe you have the right to make any such assertions, you don't have all the facts and given that you don't show your name I can only assume you aren't an official spokes person for Sun. I believe I can hand on heart say for all of the Sun employed Solaris engineering that this is not a political move to sell more hardware it *is* about sharing and working as a community. From our view point if the open sourcing of Solaris happens to help hardware sales great, but it is really more about sharing Solaris and working as a wider team and (Open)Solaris adoption regardless of where the hardware was sourced from. If this was all about Sun hardware why would we be so excited about the community wanting to do a PPC port ? There are many great engineers, like Joerg and all of the blastware, sunfreeware etc etc teams that really do want to engage on a much more direct level with the Sun engineering teams and vice versa. This is the real reason we are doing open source so we can learn from each other and make progress together for a better future for Solaris. If you don't want to sit and have smores[1] with us and sing 'kumbayah' then maybe it is time for you to go and play troll at another camp ground. [1] For the non Americans (myself included) smores are melted chocolate and marshmallows stuck between crackers, often consumed on camping trips. Personally I can't stand the taste of them, I don't like gooey chocolate, but the concept is cool. -- Darren J Moffat _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
