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Open Solaris Community Advisory Board Announced

Posted by timothy on from the should-pass-a-law-or-at-least-form-a-committee dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Sun have announced the OpenSolaris community advisory board, chaired by Roy Felding (co founder and director of the Apache Foundatation), two community appointed people, Rich Teer and Al Hooper (both members of the infamous gang of six that helped to get Sun to restart Solaris x86) and two sun employees - well known open source evangelist Simon Phipps and kernel engineer Casper Dik. No date for the code release as of yet, but it can't be far off now."

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  1. Sun's Idea by turgid · · Score: 0, Troll
    Sun hopes that by open-sourcing Solaris they can attract a large community of developers to work on it, and that it will over-take Linux in development pace.

    It will be interesting to see if anyone currently developing Linux jumps ship to Solaris...

    /me ducks.

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