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IBM Derides OpenSolaris as Not-So-Open

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the when-the-playground's-in-full-swing dept.

MaverickFire writes "OpenSolaris isn't a true open-source project, but rather a "facade," because Sun Microsystems doesn't share control of it with outsiders, executives from rival IBM say. "Sun holds it all behind the firewall. The community sees nothing," Dan Frye, the IBM vice president who runs the company's Linux Technology Center, said. Sun could do "simple things" to build a real OpenSolaris community if it were serious about doing so, Frye said. "They would push their design discussions out into the forums, so people can see what's going on," he suggested." I talked to one of the OpenSolaris developers at the project's LWCE booth in the "dot-org ghetto," and though it wasn't in response to this article, he pointed out that OpenSolaris takes contributions from all comers, has active public mailing lists, open IRC channels, and several online communities, so Frye's description seems at least overblown.

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  1. Not for nothing, but... by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    It beats the hell out of OpenAIX. On acount of being somewhat more... existant.

  2. What's the problem by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny

    It's at least as Open as OpenVMS!

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  3. Firewall?? by ader · · Score: 2, Funny

    > "Sun holds it all behind the firewall."

    Trans.: "I know a techie word and I'm going to use it."

    Ade_
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  4. Re:First post by ettlz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Open AIX?

    Isn't the whole idea to improve the Open Source gene pool?