> In my opinion this feels > like a marketing idea > from the hallways of the same people that put "Java" > in front of everything.
...And which was one of the worst ideas in the history of marketing. Example: what does Java, a programming language, have to do with the "Java Desktop System", a derivate of the GNOME environment? Or, the Java Enterprise System. Is it written in Java? What does MiddleWare have to do with? > Its the latest fad to sell the proect to the mad rush > of people that are NOT > joining in and NOT getting involved. The mad rush of > people that did NOT > arrive and proclaim the beauty and brilliance of the > UNIX operating system. I agree with you Dennis 100%. We are now discussing dual licensing Solaris because someone obviously believes that it is a good idea to go after the people who were foaming around their mouth on Slashdot about Sun being a deadbeat company with no vision, and how Solaris was "Slowlaris" and how Linux is superior and better and open and bla bla bla... And... GPLing Solaris will make those Linux fanboys suddenly switch to (Open)Solaris? Perhaps we should start begging and pleading with every Linux geek out there to please, please look at Solaris? This is really starting to get out of hand. Those people believe that GPL (v3) is the way to go because they don't know any better. And making Solaris GPL will help only as much as one publicity stunt may help some product; but it's short famed at best. The key is to educate the target audience and raise awareness, not try to go along with whatever the latest fashion fad is; GPLing Solaris is the wrong approach to raising awareness because it falls under the "15 minutes of fame" category, and does not have a long term beneficial effect that is needed. Those people believe that Linux is great quite simply because they don't know any better. And I believe that no amount of GPL is going to make any significant impact on making OpenSolaris better. CDDL is just fine. In fact, just about any non-commercial license would probably be OK. Why is it that popular software gets worked on no matter what the license? Example: Apache. Hows come nobody complains about Apache not being GPL at large? Hey, I must ask, what is going on here? If the target audience *wanted* to do something for Solaris, they would have done so -- GPL or no. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
