"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding at gbiv.com> wrote:
...
I agree with your (unquoted) text above, this is where Debian is
currently disgusting developers. I hope that Sun will not follow
this idea...
> In short, I agree with Stephen's assessment that, given the
> potential technical conflicts have been addressed by the case,
> the remaining decision is economic in nature: does Solaris want
> to tradeoff the benefit of having a working coreutils versus
> the cost of duplicate code?
I am not sure what you like to see... I would neither like to see
Solaris core util sources appear in favor of ksh's libcmd nor would
I like to see something similar wo happen with GNU coreutils.
We have a good (and POSIX approved) set of utils available under a
free license this is something we should not give up without a reason.
I personally don't believe that we attract more developers by including
more GNU utils or by replacing UNIX tools by GNU tools. It did take a
long time to let developers go away from Solaris and it will take a similar
time to get them back. This will happen because OpenSolaris is an attractive
platform already and not because of some marketing effects. You cannot enforce
this to happen faster and you need to wait until less FUD against OpenSolaris
is spread. I believe that the best way of trying to get more Developers back
fater would be by trying to work against the FUD.
J?rg
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