Joerg Schilling wrote:
> But please note that at the time Solaris 8 was created, Sun was just in a
> state
> where the managers believed in closed source. With Solaris 8, there are only
> thre OSS packages:
>
> - mkisofs
> - gzip
> - bash
Even Solaris 8 had a lot more than just 3 open source packages - there was also
perl, sendmail, the X Window System, tcsh, and quite a few more, and work was
already underway then to adopt GNOME. The majority was still closed, but
there wasn't some vast conspiracy to believe closed was better. This is an OS
with BSD origins after all, and a company releasing sources like NFS and
contributing to projects like X11 back in the 80's, before "open source" was
defined.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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