Martin Bochnig wrote: > Until the "we don't integrate your SPARC-Xorg patches" thing. [...] > It was "work in progress" (SPARC-1.5.x move and also xcb) until you > informed me about not having any plans to use my contributions.
This thread is getting pointless, but just because it seems you might not understand me - when I said that we haven't made plans yet, I didn't mean it would never happen, was not going to happen, was planned not to happen, or anything like that. I really truly meant we don't know yet. We also have no plans yet to move to Xorg 1.6, to support the video cards that ATI & nvidia will be coming out with in 2010, or do all sorts of other things - we can only do so many things at once, and can't honestly make plans yet for things we don't have enough information about. We do plan to look at your SPARC driver work in the future, but have to get other things done first, like finishing up the migration of our old closed code base to the current open source base, getting 2008.11 out the door and getting Xorg 1.5.x ready to integrate. > It is hard to understand your corporation's philosophy: Not to use > stuff that has been created only for you, for free: > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/SPARC-Xorg/ You may not have been paid for it, but it's not free of cost to ship. Sun will have to pay engineers to do work to integrate, test, and maintain it if it is to be included in our distros, not just once, but on an ongoing basis. (And if it goes not just into a OpenSolaris release, but a full Solaris release, that's a 10+ year support commitment.) As our CEO likes to say "It's free like a puppy" - you may not be paying for the dog, but if you keep it you'll be paying for food, vet bills, etc. -- -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
