Tuesday September 14, 2004
Tuesday September 14, 2004 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.
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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Posted by Anonymous on September 15, 2004 at 02:03 AM PDT #
However, both Scott McNealy and Jonathan Schwartz have said that what they bought (for $100m or something from then "Unix" owner Novell many years back) was "rights equivalent to ownership". I've also heard that there's no original System-V code left in the latest versions of Solaris.
Still, this does seem to be a nail that needs to be firmly pounded down...
Posted by Chris Rijk on September 15, 2004 at 02:30 AM PDT #