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

[Joerg Schilling]

Keith M Wesolowski <keith.wesolowski at sun.com> 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.

The discussion did already evolve meanwhile...and I hope you did read
the rest too.

> 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;

My time is a limited resource and I need to find out what is more 
important (to have a fully compatible libm and similar things or to have
a SchilliX release at all).

Jörg

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