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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.'"
It doesn't exist. If it did, it doesn't anymore. It's vaporware. Beyond some renderings done way back in 2001 (we don't know if they're real), where are the current screenshots? DNF was announced in 1997 for Christ's sake. That's 8 years of "coming soon". It's nothing more than a tactic to get gamers to revisit their website every few months. It should have been obvious from the name that it was never their plan to release Duke Nukem Waiting Forever.