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Corporations better than community

Corporations better than community

Posted Mar 28, 2008 10:10 UTC (Fri) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
Parent article: OSBC Panel Looks at the Future of the OS (eWeek)

...said the representative of a company that sells phone support :-)

At the same time, I don't think there's any weight in Intel's criticism of the lack of non-Sun
contribution to OpenSolaris.  OpenSolaris is now free software and as well as using the code,
users can read, modify, and publish modified versions.  That's great progress!

And, FWIW, I remember Simon Phipps saying it's partly an infrastructure problem that will be
sorted when they change their source code repository system.

Going GPLv3 would probably also help them.


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