Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:
> John Plocher wrote:
> > James Carlson <carlsonj at workingcode.com> wrote:
> >> .. Thus "FOSS is special."
> >
> > I believe FOSS *IS* Special - because doing a good job of integrating
> > general cross-platform FOSS into OpenSolaris is actually HARDER than
> > integrating something invented by the community specifically for the
> > OS itself.
>
> So it's not the FOSS license that makes it special - it's the external
> control, for which we may or may not have some contribution to, that's
> the difference. Is there really any difference in the architecture
If you have problems with the fact that other people control the development
for their software, you need to rethink your relation to OSS.
The development is controlled by the people who make the work and BTW:
if you like people from the community to write code for OpenSolaris, you of
course need to allow them to decide on the future of OpenSolaris.
J?rg
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