[gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [ports-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Shawn Walker]

On 04/05/07, Laszlo (Laca) Peter <laca at sun.com> wrote:
> (removed a few Cc:s because the mailing lists started to bounce
> the messages)
>
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:07 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> > > What ships in Solaris is 100% up to Sun Microsystems, Inc.
> > > It will have to be built by Sun and supported by Sun for many years.
> >
> > Personally, if feel that if it doesn't make it into Solaris, than I am
> > wasting my time. (I don't run xyz dist of OpenSolaris on my mission
> > critical servers. I run Solaris, and am contributing to this effort in
> > order to bring Solaris closer to *my* ideal.
>
> I don't think it's a waste of time.  Blastwave isn't _in_ Solaris
> and it's definitely not a waste of time.
>
> People prefer different editors, irc clients, email apps, etc.
> It doesn't mean that all those should be _in_ Solaris and supported
> by Sun.  For most purposes, it's enough if there's an online repository
> where you can get the latest and greatest from.  And that's what
> these overlapping projects aim to provide.

I think this is a key point that's being missed.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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