Comment On Putting One's Money Where One's Mouth Be (Score 1) 332
i have always wondered how many of the abundant Sun bashers here avail themselves of preemtive excuses ("i don't trust Sun") to hide the fact that they don't really write any code, or contribute in any meanigful way to open source software, under any license.
it is very easy to type up a laundry list of Solaris shortcomings, or to make up and post conspiracy theories about Sun. anyone with a laptop, a dialup number and average English writing skills can do that.
fortunately, everyone will soon have the chance to prove their code writing skills, for a change. once the Solaris source code becomes available, let's see how many here will actually write a driver for OpenSolaris. anyone who's been so busy criticizing Sun and Solaris must have at least some degree of interest in at least one of them. and this hypothetical driver doesn't even have to be released under CDDL, if you don't "trust Sun". the BSD license will do just fine. it is compatible with CDDL.
endlessly debating the merits of "GPL vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or the GPL. just as endlessly debating the merits of "Linux vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or Linux. it's just hot air.
let's see how cold and thin the air becomes once the Solaris source code becomes available. no more "but it's not really open source" excuses.
to those who will undoubtedly ID me: yes, i hardly ever post here, and for a reason.
--SkipJackDES
it is very easy to type up a laundry list of Solaris shortcomings, or to make up and post conspiracy theories about Sun. anyone with a laptop, a dialup number and average English writing skills can do that.
fortunately, everyone will soon have the chance to prove their code writing skills, for a change. once the Solaris source code becomes available, let's see how many here will actually write a driver for OpenSolaris. anyone who's been so busy criticizing Sun and Solaris must have at least some degree of interest in at least one of them. and this hypothetical driver doesn't even have to be released under CDDL, if you don't "trust Sun". the BSD license will do just fine. it is compatible with CDDL.
endlessly debating the merits of "GPL vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or the GPL. just as endlessly debating the merits of "Linux vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or Linux. it's just hot air.
let's see how cold and thin the air becomes once the Solaris source code becomes available. no more "but it's not really open source" excuses.
to those who will undoubtedly ID me: yes, i hardly ever post here, and for a reason.
--SkipJackDES
