On 9/14/10, Eric Andersen wrote: > Whatever Apple does or doesn't do, the point I was trying to make was that a > whole lot of people are willing to not only accept, but pay for an operating > system that is closed source. A very large amount of OS X source code is > open and freely available, so it was a bad example of that point.
The new Solaris and its impending source drops bear more resemblance to OS X than they do to something completely closed source like Windows. If you want Windows source you have to be either a billionaire, a large nation/state, or both. And several billion seats of Windows is enough proof that people are willing to pay for an OS regardless of whether its source is available or even marginally functional. I think the real point that everyone is missing is that despite everyone's hurt feelings this decision has been made in order to keep Solaris viable and profitable -- something that Sun was obviously unable to do for much of the past decade. -Gary _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
