Greg K-H replies to Sun
A rebuttal of a single Sun misinformed developer.
Eric Schrock from Sun says
The main reason we can't just jump into Linux is because Linux doesn't align with our engineering principles, and no amount of patches will ever change that.
(That sounds more like a problem for Sun than for Linux.)
There is a big LWN thread about it.
My guess would be that OpenSolaris will be a kind of walled garden: licenced so that code cannot be merged into other projects, and in any case differences in architecture will make that hard. Releasing it will be useful to people working on Solaris, as read-only access always is: the final documentation, useful in tracking down bugs, and so on. So it'll be mildly positive for existing users and get Sun some good press, but it won't change the overall curve.
I can't imagine choosing a Sun machine just because I can get (some?) operating system source. What percentage of Macintosh buyers care about OpenDarwin? I like Macs, and I like open source, but I don't think OpenDarwin would be a compelling reason to buy one.
posted Sun 26 Sep 2004 in /software/linux-kernel | link
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