On Mon, 03 May 2010 18:36:29 PDT, bsd <mascotgr...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I'll wait for the hate messages after I post this. > > I personally don't get the Solaris/OpenSolaris distributions. Sure, I > understand when Sun said that OpenSolaris was open source (although most of > it is released under binary license agreements), and that OpenSolaris is > "supposed" to be the RHEL/Fedora model for Solaris 10 development. > > However, I personally see OpenSolaris as a marketing gimmick. For one, > see open binary licenses in place of source code. Two, what is even the > need for a development model like RHEL/Fedora? OpenBSD and FreeBSD don't > offer a OpenBSD-Open or FreeBSD-Open. They simply have current, stable, > and release. It would have been much simpler, in my opinion, to have a > Solaris 10-release, Solaris 10-stable, and Solaris 10-current. > > Sun released Solaris 10 for free so there wasn't any reason they couldn't > have followed the current, stable, release model. Instead they opted for a > marketing gimmick which is not going as planned.
1) The vast majority of the OpenSolaris distribution is free software. The "OpenSolaris Binary License" you see when downloading the distro covers the non-free portions listed here: http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Main/no_source - Sun was unable to relicence these as they were not the sole copyright holder. 2) Solaris 10 is not and has never been capital-F free. Solaris was not free-as-in-beer until Solaris 9, and Oracle has reversed this for Solaris 10. -Albert _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
