____/ Philluminati on Friday 17 August 2007 16:07 : \____
> It's not a clone tho is it Roy? (I see you on Digg!). It's the
> original Unix from AT&T that's undergone some major transformations
> over the previous years and apart from being behind on consumer pc
> drivers, it's actually a really good operating system. I think if you
> look at the history of Linux and Unix you'll find that it's Linux
> that's generally considered the clone. All that's happening is that
> closed source Solaris Unix will become GNU/OpenSolaris.
True. When I said clone I was referring to the distribution and development
model. See some of the recent interviews with Murdock (and some other
analysis).
> I've tried Nexenta which is Ubuntu + OpenSolaris kernel and actually
> it's just the same to be honest.
[H]omer begs to differ and I read some other reviews. To be honest, it's not
safe to just rely on someone else's assessment.
> If they fully open source this operating system it will be the best
> thing possible for open source...and I'm sure you can't disagree.
> Linus Torvalds undermined the true meaning of FOSS, as Richard
> Stallman would claim, by appealing to corporate backing and down
> playing the "Free" part and emphasizing only the "Open source" part.
Sun denounced the whole DRM nonesense in Vista, so there's clearly something to
like. They also GPLed a couple of chips (revisions thereof, IIRC).
> Isn't competition a good thing? Competition between two extremely
> sophisticatedly kernels will surely drive features forward. This is an
> excellent, brilliant event for the Free and Open Source Community. If
> Solaris goes GPL 3, fingers crossed, then I'm sure Richard Stallman
> will back it fearcly, I mean after all, Linus isn't involved in that
> kernel.
I saw what Phipps said to Sutor and it seems like Sun is unsure as to whether
GPLv3 will give them an advantage over Linux. Meanwhile, Morton and Torvalds
seem a little nervous about OpenSolaris. Linus talked about it in the mailing
list whereas Morton mentioned it in a recent (LinuxWorld?) talk.
> It means more choice for users of free software. it doesn't take
> anything from Linux does it?
Yes, but that's what people said when Novell acquired SuSE. It's hard to trust
a development force that is driven primarily (only?) by shareholders who give
a s**t about nothing but Benjamins. As the saying goes, money
corrupts. /Extreme/ capitalism kills, suppresses, and exploits.
> Philluminati
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