[osol-mktg] Re: [osol-discuss] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

[Dan Mick]

Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:01:09AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 
> 
>>>No, Nevada is the engineering name for the development version of the
>>>whole Sun-Solaris.
>>
>>Then it is currently impossible to be binary compatible with it.
> 
> 
> That should not be true, as concerns public interfaces.
> 
> What you really mean to say is that reimplementing the interfaces
> implemented in Solaris by closed-source or non-redistributable
> components is more work than you're willing to do.  That's fine;
> you've worked your tail off already and done far more than anyone has
> the right to ask.  But you should not give anyone the impression that
> it's technically impossible to reimplement these interfaces from
> scratch.  If there is a public interface whose behaviours are
> inadequately documented, please file a bug.
> 

and for the record, /dev/xsvc is coming.  I'm working on it personally now.
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