On 08/13/10 05:08 PM, Ian Collins wrote:
On 08/14/10 08:45 AM, Paul Gress wrote:
On 08/13/10 03:45 PM, Petros Koutoupis wrote:
As much as I am disappointed with the end result of this whole
OpenSolaris drama, I still cannot find myself to agree with the
above excerpt. Oracle works heavily with Linux. In fact they are
sponsoring Chris Mason's development of the GPL'd Btrfs file system.
They also developed and GPL'd the OCFS. This is on top of other
lesser known management tools which all are focused toward their Red
Hat based Unbreakable Linux distribution (and in some cases outside
of that).
While all of this never defined them as an open source company, they
seem to spend a lot of time and money contributing back to the
community. What the real reason(s) for not wanting to work with
OpenSolaris are....this answer we may never figure out.
I also agree with Petros. Oracle was only looking to gain control of
Opensolaris. It looks to me, they tried balancing their goals with
somewhat of the Opensolaris community goals in that they said they
will release development binary snapshots called Solaris 11 Express
and source, at an unspecified interval.
If the memo is to be believed, the source will follow "full releases
of our enterprise Solaris operating system" how ever far apart they are.
Or probably after each major update release.
Paul
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