Linux is ostensibly better than Windows and OS X because it's open source but Windows and OS X still dominate the desktop market and will for a long time since. Since when has being Open Source been equal to ubiquitous?

Realistically, Flash to iPhone would be easier excepting for Apple's licensing and such. One thing Apple DOES do well is standardise its interface and APIs. HTML5 isn't well supported and won't be implemented for years and YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS from now by which time real people will have gotten fed up and the various implementations WILL have diverged. And then we'll have everyone bleating about HTML6 to solve all our problems...Flash -> iPhone seemed to be a proof of concept against a non-moving target. It's just that said target went and made it illegal to do so.

That is a fair comment; there were or are moves to try and remove the non-open parts of OpenSolaris more open.

So that we're not throwing brick bats at Sun, though, I suspect Sun might have wanted to open all of OpenSolaris but got stuck with a codebase where some of the licensing for it simply didn't allow them.

That, of course, is exactly the whole point of many open source advocates' message - if you use ANY source that has a restrictive license you can lock yourself in and end up not being able to open your source as much as you'd like to.

There are arguments about the CDDL versus the other open source or free licenses but that, I don't think, matters here. My point is that even if Sun wanted to make ALL of OpenSolaris free (eg. GPLv3 free) they couldn't have due to prior legal obligations.

Oh dear,

I misread ex. Disney as sex. Disney...

DSL