John Plocher <john.plocher at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote:
> > Again, I can't talk about the rationale for the bits that are closed being
> > so.
>
>
> It is pretty clear that the reason it is closed is because Oracle
> feels the features, internal build coordination and configuration of
> their own distro (OpenSolaris 2010.03 ...) are none of the community's
> damn business.
>
> Fine - I can live with the refreshingly honest view that the
> OpenSolaris distro is Oracle's proprietary distro built on top of the
> community's effort. The implication of this behavior, though, is that
> any "Oracle distro specific" changes, policies and customization must
> remain part of Oracle's internal source trees and NOT be pushed back
> out to pollute the community's repos. If it ain't the community's
> business now, the community really doesn't want the results shoved
> down their throats.
In such a case, compatibility with a _distro_ called "OpenSolaris"
does not seem to be something that gives extra benefit for distro creators.
It seems that we may need to define mesaurable compatibility features
that are important for a "sufficiently compatible" OpenSolaris distro
and it may be that this needs to be done besides ARC.
I believe that it is important to have a generally accepted set of common
features in order to prevent balcanization of OpenSolaris. Balcanization of
OpenSolaris would make it impossible to migrate between differen OpenSolaris
based distros without getting into similar problems as from migratin from Linux
to Solaris and vice versa.
J?rg
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