Tuesday June 14, 2005 Real Unix, Real Open, in a Real Torrent
Today is the Opening Day for OpenSolaris, the open source community project seeded with the source code to Solaris. There are plenty of OpenSolaris engineers blogging about the code itself and they make great reading, but the thing about the opening of the new community that really excites me is that OpenSolaris.org is offering BitTorrent downloads of the source tarballs. I am currently grabbing the 44Mb of source for OpenSolaris and I see seeds all over the world
I've been an advocate of using BitTorrent since I first got involved in OpenSolaris and I am thrilled to see it happening. It took a lot of work by a number of people, including particularly Derek Cicero who did the hard work of getting approval from our lawyer, our export control department, executive management and a host of others. Not least it's setting the precedent that BitTorrent is just a protocol and not inherently a tool for bad behaviour. I hope plenty of others join in to help pioneer the participation age of software downloads - I'll be leaving my seed online as much as I can here in Singapore to help the many Singaporeans who expressed huge interest in it during my speech this morning (for which my slides are available).
Posted by webmink
( Jun 14 2005, 08:15:00 AM PDT )
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