Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Thu 17th Aug 2006 02:54 UTC, submitted by george
OpenSolaris isn't a true open-source project, but rather a "facade," because Sun Microsystems doesn't share control of it with outsiders, executives from rival IBM say.
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RE[6]: How about an actual install?
by dbprice on Fri 18th Aug 2006 00:42
in reply to "RE[5]: How about an actual install?"
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I modded you up 1 from 0 because you are correct. From what I understand, Nexenta is still linking everything against Sun's CDDL c libraries which are GPL incompatible.
Nexenta has actually worked out everything with the Debian and FSF and they are in total compliance. So this is wrong.
OpenSolaris is a very good marketing ploy + an easy way for Sun to look good while still holding onto the crown jewels. It also allows them to offset development costs slightly.
On what basis can you say this? This is pure speculation.
What could Sun do to have a "real" open source project? Put OpenSolaris in a public cvs repository and give outside contributors (read non-Sun employees) full commit acess to it.
As opposed to a "fake" open source project? Really, this is getting old. As far as commit access for outside contributors, this was announced as part of the roadmap and plan a year ago. It's still on the agenda, and it's being worked on right now. It's still on schedule for happening too. It is really annoying when people run around talking about things they don't know about.
Make the engineering and design decisions on a public and non-moderated mailinglist while being open to outside ideas. Do you see this happening? No you don't.
You haven't been looking very close then. This is happening right now. Go read the program-team, CAB, ZFS or other forums. You will see a lot of internal SUN employees talking about and discussing design and other decisions openly in public. The lists are only moderated to prevent spam, all legitimate messages are let through. Even the linux-kernel mailing list is moderated to a certain extent!