Ummm. No.
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| olefowdie Aug 10, 2010 10:44 AM EDT |
You cannot tell people to leave one project for another simply because you think that their project has no merit. This is just a giant rant about hating Solaris. Having other kernels, other packaging systems, other init systems, is always a good thing. Why not tell Linus back in the 90s to stop with his little toy OS and work on or contribute to *BSD or GNU? Why not tell Debian to stop with their package system and work on or contribute to Slackware? FWIW, I think you are missing the point of open source software. In the world of OSS a single person or even a small group can change the world. Linus proved it. RMS proved it. ESR proved it. If the guys at Illumos do a great job and attract more people, OpenSolaris could still have a crazy wild and big future. |
| Steven_Rosenber Aug 10, 2010 10:51 AM EDT |
You never know where a project's going to go. And maybe the Illumos fork will give Oracle a kick in the a$%. More Solarisy features in FreeBSD would probably also be a great thing (it already has D-Trade and ZFS). |
| Bob_Robertson Aug 10, 2010 10:54 AM EDT |
I think the problem is with the word "should". Maybe "will" would be a better question. Personally, I think OpenSolaris "should" be utilized like an organ donor. Utilize what is best, find the techniques used that made it unique, and use that to make the rest of the F/OSS universe better. That does sound rather BORG like, silly me. But really, isn't keeping alive the best of code what F/OSS is rooted in? |
| TxtEdMacs Aug 11, 2010 6:57 AM EDT |
[serious] Freedom, means doing what pleases one self while doing the least harm to others. Long may Solaris live* under one name or another. * As long as some one has an interest. [/serious] YBT |
| azerthoth Aug 11, 2010 10:06 AM EDT |
Well, there is a sticky topic, open slowaris was only made open after SCO misappropriately sold Novell copyrights for the parts of open solaris that weren't open at the time. The case has been made that this was in direct contradiction and allowed direct competition to Novell's own linux offering. The cat however is out of the bag, maybe Oracle understands the sticky position that project is in though, Novell still has the option to litigate that if they so choose. So by never addressing the problem in any form it will just go away. Remember one of SCO's arguments was that Novell had to support the sale (for some reason along the likes of they didn't have to money to deal with the legal issues if Novel didn't). So should open solaris die? It shouldn't have been born to start with. |
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