On 31/10/2007, I. Szczesniak <iszczesniak at gmail.com> wrote: > On 10/31/07, Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote: > > I. Szczesniak wrote: > > No one has ever promised /usr/gnu/bin would be POSIX compliant. > > I disagree. POSIX violations are BUGS and have to be fixed, otherwise > interoperability between systems is completely gone. Or are you saying > that Sun intends to ship the GNU tools as cheap 'outsourced' > alternative to the Sys5 tools and then refuse support, even in > violation of our support contract? In that case I better start > archiving this discussion that our legal department can review this if > Sun refuses to fulfill the support contact requirements.
This discussion is completely off-topic for OpenSolaris now, but I bet if you read that support agreement it allows Sun to define what components are supported and at what level. I suggest you follow-up when it becomes appropriate to do so, but posts like this aren't helpful and aren't applicable to this community. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
