Hey, Shawn Walker wrote: > People's beliefs and values change. I also don't see where it said > there would never be one. > > I never had the impression, from day one, that a distribution would > never be launched. > > It has been my personal, fervent hope that we would eventually have an > OpenSolaris distribution; and an officially recognised one at that. > > People have been treating Solaris Express as "OpenSolaris" for a long > time now; and if you look at various online postsings, you'll see > people often call it that.
And I think that's the reality of the situation. We've seen monumental growth particularly in the user community in particular since the project launched, and what you're seeing now is Sun wanting to react to that (unexpected?) opportunity. While I can appreciate others feeling disgruntled based on promises that may or may not have been made from day one, I do strongly believe that having a binary 'OpenSolaris' is a good thing, and delivers a binary product for the 1000's of people who have been asking to download it. Glynn
