"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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Member since:2006-01-02
It's not really the same. Torvalds said that because he thought GNOME was going down the wrong path *on technical merits* with respect to interface design (as it were, the dumbing down of the interface). It was hardly ideological, although the flamewar ended up going that way.
Member since:2006-01-01
Some GPL zealots are really stupid, they forget too fast the core philosophy of free software and having an open-minded vision to improve and to share software without any restriction.
Sun is really the one forget the core philosophy of free software and having an open-minded vision to improve and to share software without any restriction, by creating an
license that is incompatible with the most widely use license the GPL.Sun wants everything for themselves. If Sun really wanted to share code with linux,they would not of created the license that opensolaris is released under and had adopted the GPL,etc. I do hope Sun does release opensolaris under the GPLv3.
Edited 2007-08-10 00:38
Member since:2005-10-02
It had nothing to do with licenses. Linus Torvalds argued against using Gnome because of what he (correctly IMHO) saw as "dumbing down the interface" and because of (his words) the "interface nazis" controlling development.
It was a technical issue and never ideological.
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2005-06-29
It reminds me of Linus Torvalds who asked every Linux user to move to KDE. Some GPL zealots are really stupid, they forget too fast the core philosophy of free software and having an open-minded vision to improve and to share software without any restriction.