[advocacy-discuss] Is opensolaris 100% opensource?

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> wrote:
> >> but I don't remember anyone ever saying everything will be Open Source.   After
> >> all, if Sun had committed to everything, then we wouldn't have the Emanicipation
> >> project being done only by community members.
> > 
> > Unfortunately, this kind of emancipation does not really happen. In 2005, Sun 
> > could have replaced e.g. /usr/bin/pax by star already. When will emancipation 
> > happen?
>
> When people make it happen - as I said, Sun isn't working on it much, and the
> Emanicipation project team has made some progress, but I'm sure they would
> appreciate more help.   Why don't you go over to their project lists and ask
> them how you can contribute?

I try to contribute since a long time. The problem is that I am more than 
left alone.

As long as Sun is unable to deal with contributions, we need to understand that 
emancipation cannot happen.

Jörg

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