Today is the Sun Open Source Summit. Over 200 Sun engineers (including a whole bunch of Solaris developers) getting together with each other and a host of outside community members to talk about open source software. Despite this, and everything else we've done both recently and over the years, there are not just unbelievers but apparently genuine cynics out there. People who don't believe that we could possibly "really" open source Solaris, and that if we do there will be some catch, some incredibly evil ulterior motive we must be hiding. It just blows me away that people think this. They obviously don't understand Sun or how Sun works. Worse for me, they clearly have no idea of who the people at Sun are. I couldn't hold my engineers back even if I wanted to, and I certainly don't want to.

Bottom line: we are going to open source Solaris. Really. My engineering team believes in this. Really. We are about to start our pilot program. Really. (Sorry, it's full.) Are we done? Not yet. Can we tell you more? Not yet. But it will happen.

You can believe it, or not.

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