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

Re:I know it exists. I'm in the pilot.

[pandrijeczko]

This place is full of anti-Sun bigotry, hatred and lies.

And who can blame us?

Scott McNealy was full of anti-Linux bigotry, hatred and lies... until he had to commit to this massive u-turn of open sourcing Solaris.

McNealy's a fool to himself - rather than embracing the open source community as an ally instead of an enemy five years ago, Solaris might well have been taken seriously as an OS on non-Sun hardware.

Let's face it, would Sun even consider making Solaris open source if Linux didn't exist?