On Wed, 2007-08-01 at 00:01 +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: > Kaiwai Gardiner wrote: > > > Hardware - ATI drivers anyone? drivers for webcams, flash card > readers, > > sound cards out of the box etc. etc. again, 2 years of opensolaris, > even > > more since Solaris x86 support came back and there are still major > > issues. > > > > What can the opensolaris community do? nothing, it has no money. > What > > can Sun do? it has $4billion, you can do alot with $4billion. > > Lack of money doesn't seem to have stopped the Linux community. > > This is an open source community, if there are improvements to > OpenSolaris that you'd like to see, please feel free to work on them.
But I'm a potential customer who is interested in licencing Solaris - for Sun its in their interest to deliver one piddle function (firmware upload for webcams) to win a customer (or potentially customers) over along with developers. Matthew _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
