Bryan Cantrill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:21:11PM -0500, Ed Saipetch wrote: >> Can someone clarify Sun's approach to opensourcing projects and >> software? I was under the impression the strategy was to charge for >> hardware, maintenance and PS. If not, some clarification would be nice. > > There is no single answer -- we use open source as a business strategy, > not as a checkbox or edict. For this product, open source is an option > going down the road, but not a priority. Will our software be open > sourced in the fullness of time? My Magic 8-Ball tells me "signs > point to yes" (or is that "ask again later"?) -- but it's certainly > not something that we have concrete plans for at the moment...
I think that's fair enough. What Sun choose to do is, of course, up to Sun. One can, however, understand that people might have expected otherwise given statements like this: > "With our announced intent to open source the entirety of our software > offerings, every single developer across the world now has access to > the most sophisticated platform available for web 1.0, 2.0 and beyond" - Jonathan Schwartz http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2005-11/sunflash.20051130.1.xml -- Boyd _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
