Why OpenSolaris Failed To Build a Community

xtaski writes "Ted Ts'o, one of the earliest Linux developers, points out some serious flaws in OpenSolaris. There is a severe lack of developers, for one. Apparently, after 3 years, the OpenSolaris 'developer community' is still struggling to get the proper tools for developers to develop! Ted also points out some other flaws which make it clear just how disconnected the executives at Sun are from what's really going on in their 'open source communities.' He notes, 'It was never ... Sun's intention to try to promote a kernel engineering community, or at least, it was certainly not a high priority for them to do so.'"

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Re:Not welcoming your Scott McNealy overlord?

[postbigbang]

Sticking it to Microsoft is just a side-benefit of opening up source and using 'free' licensing schemes to get things moving. You should be in politics. I hear there's a huge void left when Karl Rove left.