The opensolaris.org community site is
now live. Source code (some 20,000 files) is available for
download, torrent
and perusal.
Mailing lists,
a project overview
and a community
portal are also live.
The opensolaris.org community site is
now live. Source code (some 20,000 files) is available for
download, torrent
and perusal.
Mailing lists,
a project overview
and a community
portal are also live.
So nokia, IBM, Red Hat, HP, Sun(openoffice), intel and Novell are communists? I didn’t know that…
should not be called OSNews, it should be called OSWars.
This thread has turned into “My OS’s Source Code is Freer Than Yours”. It’s sad when communities cannot support a good thing. We complained when Sun was not open source. Now that they are making a good attempt to be, many users here ignore it and shoot down their license? So sad.
Quote: “Now that they are making a good attempt to be”
That’s debatable, depending on how you define *open source* isn’t it.
To me, Sun is trying to be open source but keep things closed source for a rainy day.
Dave
…we would have government mandating GPL on everything, banning money…basically turning the western world into N. Korea. Fight fascists wherever you see them
Quote: To me, Sun is trying to be open source but keep things closed source for a rainy day.
Of course they are. They are still, in fact, a company. Companies make money by sales. Contributing to open source does NOT mean that they are required to give ALL of their property away.
They are, in my mind, making a reasonable attempt to open some of their code. That’s a pretty extreme expectation, for a company to just give all of its source code away. If/when GPLed software puts them out of business, that’s one thing. But is that where we’ve come now in the Linux community? No company can have privately owned software without being evil? Free as in beer, just not free as in choice of OS or license. How low this community has sunk.
It is a big difference between open and “open”, is takes
time and requires some mental changes for Sun developers
involved in opensolaris project.
My two cents.