i have always wondered how many of the abundant Sun bashers here avail themselves of preemtive excuses ("i don't trust Sun") to hide the fact that they don't really write any code, or contribute in any meanigful way to open source software, under any license.
it is very easy to type up a laundry list of Solaris shortcomings, or to make up and post conspiracy theories about Sun. anyone with a laptop, a dialup number and average English writing skills can do that.
fortunately, everyone will soon have the chance to
prove their code writing skills, for a change. once the Solaris source code becomes available, let's see how many here will actually write a driver for OpenSolaris. anyone who's been so busy criticizing Sun and Solaris must have at least some degree of interest in at least one of them. and this hypothetical driver doesn't even have to be released under CDDL, if you don't "trust Sun". the BSD license will do just fine. it is compatible with CDDL.
endlessly debating the merits of "GPL vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or the GPL. just as endlessly debating the merits of "Linux vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or Linux. it's just hot air.
let's see how cold and thin the air becomes once the Solaris source code becomes available. no more "but it's not really open source" excuses.
to those who will undoubtedly ID me: yes, i hardly ever post here, and for a reason.
It runs fine on Solaris 9. The missing things are XRandR, XRender, Xft/FreeType2 (which are not available on Solaris 8).
I will start providing Solaris 9 packages starting with KDE 3.2.
--Skip
Factually incorrect and misleading:
- A Qt developer license does NOT cost USD $3000, but USD $1200 out of the box. That is, without any volume discounts, which, AFAIK, are applied in increments of 5, 10, 20, etc. The real license cost per developer, in a large scale enterprise, would be close to $500 per developer, if not less. Sticker price never applies for enterprise licenses.
Nice try, though. Have you considered working for Bill ?
--Skip
You won't be able to install KDE without root privilges. There are several binaries which need to be installed setuid root. They really really need to be setuid root. Really.:-)
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i have always wondered how many of the abundant Sun bashers here avail themselves of preemtive excuses ("i don't trust Sun") to hide the fact that they don't really write any code, or contribute in any meanigful way to open source software, under any license.
it is very easy to type up a laundry list of Solaris shortcomings, or to make up and post conspiracy theories about Sun. anyone with a laptop, a dialup number and average English writing skills can do that.
fortunately, everyone will soon have the chance to prove their code writing skills, for a change. once the Solaris source code becomes available, let's see how many here will actually write a driver for OpenSolaris. anyone who's been so busy criticizing Sun and Solaris must have at least some degree of interest in at least one of them. and this hypothetical driver doesn't even have to be released under CDDL, if you don't "trust Sun". the BSD license will do just fine. it is compatible with CDDL.
endlessly debating the merits of "GPL vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or the GPL. just as endlessly debating the merits of "Linux vs. everything else" is not really a meaningful contribution to open source, or Linux. it's just hot air.
let's see how cold and thin the air becomes once the Solaris source code becomes available. no more "but it's not really open source" excuses.
to those who will undoubtedly ID me: yes, i hardly ever post here, and for a reason.
--SkipJackDES
The Sun Companion CD is built with gcc not Forte. --Skip
It runs fine on Solaris 9. The missing things are XRandR, XRender, Xft/FreeType2 (which are not available on Solaris 8). I will start providing Solaris 9 packages starting with KDE 3.2. --Skip
Factually incorrect and misleading: - A Qt developer license does NOT cost USD $3000, but USD $1200 out of the box. That is, without any volume discounts, which, AFAIK, are applied in increments of 5, 10, 20, etc. The real license cost per developer, in a large scale enterprise, would be close to $500 per developer, if not less. Sticker price never applies for enterprise licenses. Nice try, though. Have you considered working for Bill ? --Skip
Surprising as it may be, that's the situation. --Skip
You won't be able to install KDE without root privilges. There are several binaries which need to be installed setuid root. They really really need to be setuid root. Really. :-)
--Skip