Sun Developers Refute OpenSolaris Vaporware Claims

daria42 writes "It looks like an anonymous post on OSNews.com claiming OpenSolaris is vaporware was the last straw for two frustrated Sun Microsystems developers. They have responded furiously on their official Sun blogs, saying that they are currently working 'feverishly' on the project, and that it was taking so long because of the need to get rid of legal encumbrances to releasing the code. 'OpenSolaris certainly exists,' Sun kernel developer Alan Hargreaves says on his Sun blog. 'You only have to speak to anyone involved in getting it out there. There are a lot of us out there who both do and do not work for Sun.'"

Comments

"Vaporwear"?

[stealth.c]

Is it clothing?

Re:"Vaporwear"?

[mattmentecky]

I think you just planted the seed for a marketing joint venture for fashion designers and porn producers abound.

In other news..

[asterix_2k1]

twelve thousand monkeys furiously coding for 3DRealms posted that Duke Nukem Forever should be out anytime soon...

Vaporwear?

[Anonymous Coward]

Is that the kind of underpants you have on when you're going commando?

Anonymous comments

[bigtallmofo]

"There is no OpenSolaris," read an anonymous post on operating systems news Web site OSNews.com. "Show us the code or quit mentioning it."

Who gets infuriated by anonymous comments with no substance at all?

You shouldn't spend too much brain power responding. The proper response is to respond anonymously with some stock comebacks:

"Says you!"
"Your mom!"

That'll learn'em.

both do and do not work for Sun

[Threni]

> There are a lot of us out there who both do and do not work for Sun

Wow! Quantum programmers!

Re:both do and do not work for Sun

[zeromemory]

Wow! Quantum programmers! So, may if we put them in a box hooked up to a poisonous gas tank...

Re:both do and do not work for Sun

[Anonymous Coward]

Wow! Quantum programmers!

Not any more, jerk. You changed their employment status by observing it!

Re:both do and do not work for Sun

[sysadmn]

Well, Sun pays them, but doesn't actually get any work out of them.
Kinda like around here :-) It's a variant of the Heisenberg principle. You can know exactly what we're doing, but we'll spend all our time preparing status reports and PowerPoint (oops, OpenOffice) presentations and defending our decisions. Or we can actually do productive work, but you'll have no idea what it is until it is done.

They have been working hard!

[Dante Shamest]

There are a lot of us out there who both do and do not work for Sun.

Well obviously they have been working hard, since their brain cells have been overworked, causing them to produce Zen sentences like this.

Re:osnews...

[Anonymous Coward]

osnews is known for being the trolling site bu excellence in free software land.

What? When did Slashdot get knocked off its seat?

Re:Stuff that matters

[ArsenneLupin]

They've been pretty consistent in saying that it would be end of Q2.

Yes, but Q2 of which year? My bet is on 2014.

Re:Why doesn't Sun just post some chunks of it?

[Anonymous Coward]

Are you kidding me? Sun and FOSS are best friends.

Drinking buddies, they are. Honest. No shit. I saw a Solaris server and a small Linux cluster stumbling up the street from Basil T's the other night. They were sloshed. Out of their friggen CPUs I tell ya.

One of them dumped core in the middle of the sidewalk. I had to walk around it, it was disgusting.

The smell of alcohol venting from their cooling fans was enough to make you woozy. I am still wondering if they were able to negotiate the intersection at Front St without getting hit. I think they were headed to the Dublin for another round, so if you saw them there, post back so that I can rest easy, knowing they made it that far....