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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I agree with you. What an absurd thing to say. These projects foster creativity, competition and different minds to solve problems in different ways.
Don't be so sure Mr Morton. The past few years have seen Sun slowly evolve into a more open and transparent provider of solid, well known and supported platforms.
Just because Sun hasn't done it yet, doesn't mean it will not happen. Most recently some of their hardware specs have been made available under GPL, so your argument that they refuse to adopt the GPL is inaccurate at best.
There seems to be a change of attitude at Sun which is exciting and valuable to the community and to business.
Maybe the air was a little too thin up there on stage.