Ross wrote:
I don't think this is anything unusual, nor suspicious. Sun have released huge
amounts of code to the open source communities, and the very fact that you can
come on these forums, ask a question like that, and get answers back from some
of the kernel developers shows just how open Sun is.
However, they are still a company in competition with others, they have a long
history of internal development, and since the majority of Solaris development
is contributed by Sun, I can see why they would keep things relatively quiet
until they are nearing release. Why would they want to give all their
competitors advanced warning of what they're doing before it's ready?
Also, we now know the market value for dedupe intellectual property:
$2.1 Billion.
Even though there may be open source, that does not mean there are not IP
barriers. $2.1 Billion attracts a lot of lawyers :-(
-- richard
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