Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 9th Aug 2007 17:28 UTC, submitted by vondur
"Don't expect to see key features of OpenSolaris showing up in the Linux kernel," said a top Linux maintainer. At his LinuxWorld opening keynote, Andrew Morton made it very clear that the appointment of former OSDL CTO and Debian co-founder Ian Murdock to Sun's OS platforms organization will not translate into a merging between the open source version of Solaris Unix with Linux. He didn't mince words. "It's a great shame that OpenSolaris still exists. They should have killed it," said Morton, addressing one attendee's question about the possibility of Solaris' most notable features being integrated into the kernel. "It's a disappointment and a mistake by Sun." Morton said none of those features - Zones, ZFS, DTrace - will end up in the Linux kernel because Sun refuses to adopt the GPL.
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2005-07-06
Sorry Mr. Morton, but your reasoning seems flawed at best.
By Morton's reasoning:
* Opera shouldn't exist, we have Mozilla, kill it!
* Safari shouldn't exist, we have Mozilla, kill it!
* Konqueror shouldn't exist, we have Mozilla, kill it!
* FreeBSD shouldn't exist, we have Linux, kill it!
* OpenBSD shouldn't exist, we have Linux, kill it!
* Code from the Apache project can't be integrated into Linux because the Apache developers refuse to adopt the GPL, kill it!
People need to wake up and realise that every license meets different needs. The Apache, BSD and other projects have all existed without using the GPL, sometimes even though they are incompatible (see original 4-clause BSD, Apache 2.1 license, etc.).
It isn't Sun's decision to adopt the GPL, it is the community's decision, and we don't want the GPL right now.
I'm convinced that even if all of Solaris was GPL, the Linux developers still wouldn't adopt any of the technologies because of their NIH syndrome.
Edited 2007-08-09 17:41