Again agree, but with few additional thoughts. I was looking how many people outside SUN actually has been delivering source into Nevada? Not so much, actually. For *any* develiper, starting to do bugfix-ing, for example, is very hards since it has to learn a lot of stuffs before any real coding begun.
The *real* benefit of open-souced Solaris was for other companies since theirengineers could learn new technology for *free*, even incorporating it into their OS-es or embedded systems. I hold that I know software engineering, even thought I'm telecommunications engineer, and it took so much of my time learning how some stuffs work. Linux is open source but who are developers developing it? Predominantly software engineers interested in some features they would like to add to Linux so *their* products could work. Since they have to release everything under GPL - it means that they have to share it with others so other company's engineers could improve/modify it and use it for benefits of their own company. At the end of the story it is just different business model than one with licenses.I still believe that it is more advanced that "traditional" one, but in Solaris case maybe it is not - there are not so much stakeholders willing to improve Solaris as there are stakeholders willing to incorporate pieces of Solaris existing source code into their products. Personally, I'm at least 5 years far from the phase when I will know *each* system call, whole mechanics inside ZFS, and other stuffs already outsourced. As far as ORACLE offers OS and other SUN's technologies for free to use it and develop, I'm happy with that and believe most of the people. If it is not enough for some developer then, I personally congratulate to him/her, and I believe that ORACLE would be more than happy to become their Senior Engineer employee. Hope I was clear with my thoughts. Regards, Uros Nedic Belgrade, Serbia ---------------------------------------- > Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:29:39 +0200 > From: joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de > To: ur...@live.com; unixcons...@yahoo.com; > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org; kjard...@yahoo.com > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Solaris 10,Oracle Solaris Express new license > > Uros Nedic wrote: > >> >> If would Solaris Express follow some regular release cycle, (half a year, >> for example) >> then some of us could adapt ourselves to use binary-only releases, and form >> UGs around >> Solaris Express releases. > > I believe that binary distros have been accepted only because there was > source. > > By stopping source updated, Oracle may have aroused things that did never > happen the way Sun did manage OpenSolaris. > > Jörg > > -- > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
