On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Erast Benson wrote: Please don't top post.
> Have you ever noticed that GNU/Linux is everywhere? Not here, and not on ANY computer I have a say in. > a) mind set shift (GNU/Linux => */OpenSolaris) might not happen at all > or will take too much time to happen and than GNU/Linux will close the I agree that the mindset shift will take time. > gap on server side too. And people like you will scare existing Please. That assumes that OpenSOlaris is going to stand still, giving other OSes a chance to catch up. That ain't gonna happen. > b) SUN Microsystems still do not care to explain their oficial position That's "Sun Microsystems". Others have addressed this, so I won't add to the discussion. > In regard to (b). One simple thing SUN could do is to dual license SUN > libc as GPL and CDDL. The way FreeBSD, Mozilla and many others resolved > it. This will immediately resolve publicity issue. I see no publicity issue to resolve, and I see no reason why Sun would want to license libc (or any other part of OpenSolaris) under the GPL. The CDDL is fine. > But at the same time I *LOVE* OpenSolaris and very much would like to > continue on conquer existing GNU/Linux users hearts and believe in our > final success! Same here, but there will always be some Linux hold-outs. But also, there's room for both OSes--just not on any of my machines. :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org