On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Brian Cameron <Brian.Cameron at sun.com> wrote: > The problem comes into play because there is an external free > software community out there publishing API docs, and otherwise > encouraging people to get involved, use the interfaces, and help > develop the interfaces, help them evolve and become more mature. > Further, there tend to be various free software projects which end up > depending on such interfaces. While perhaps a bad practice, some > Solaris users still want to be able to download, build, and use such > programs as they currently can do on Linux.
Despite it being "bad practice," I would hope that Sun continues to ship those files. Not shipping the files is only going to frustrate developers and end users; it will also lead to accusations of Sun shpiping a "crippled version" of GNOME, etc. as you pointed out. While I believe Sun is well within their right to mark such things as unsupported, not shipping them is definitely going to cause issues. Cheers, -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
