Enterprise Unix Roundup: Sun Hits Community-Building Road Bumps
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| For those of you just surfing in, here's the quick summary: Last year, when
| Debian GNU/Linux founder Ian Murdock came to work for Sun Microsystems, he
| was put in charge of a team that would essentially make a binary-based
| distribution out of the somewhat scattered bits of code needed to put
| together an OpenSolaris install. This "distro-ization" was referred to as
| Project Indiana.
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| [...]
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| Most recently, Apache co-founder Roy Fielding (rather loudly) announced his
| Valentine's Day resignation from the project, saying:
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| Sun agreed that 'OpenSolaris' would be governed by the community and yet
| has refused, in every step along the way, to cede any real control over
| the software produced or the way it is produced, and continues to make
| private decisions every day that are later promoted as decisions for this
| thing we call OpenSolaris.
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| Ouch.
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| This kind of thing has been said by other developers before. One thing to
| keep in mind is that as near as I can tell, this is still the feeling of a
| minority of the OpenSolaris development community. Many coders seem to be
| happily writing away on their projects.
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http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3733656
That's just why Linux is still well ahead.
Related:
Not with a bang, but a whimper
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| Roy Fielding[1] finally quit the OpenSolaris community today, see his
| resignation letter[2]. The kettle finally boiled over and the realization
| come to many (but not all) that Sun is publishing their Solaris code for
| marketing purposes, rather than creating an independent, community-led, open
| source project with the ability to make real decisions.
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http://www.ratliff.net/blog/index.php/2008/02/14/not-with-a-bang-but-a-whimper/
Sun Confirms Inflexability & Community Disregard
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| On Monday OGB Chairman Rich Teer posted Sun's answer (crafted by Mr Bill
| Franklin with the assistance of Mr. Simon Phipps) to the OGB's request for
| clarification regarding the highly controversial decision to name Project
| Indiana "OpenSolaris". The issue is highly mixed, on one hand you have Sun
| Microsystems looking for a way to monetize OpenSolaris, on the other hand
| they are redefining the term "OpenSolaris", around which everything is based,
| without a single regard for the community.
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http://cuddletech.com/blog/pivot/entry.php?id=898
Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner
says
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| Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source
| directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former
| owners and creators of the project.
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http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2007/112907-sun-opends.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news
Linux: ZFS, Licenses and Patents
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| A recent discussion on the lkml examined the possibility of a
| Linux implementation of Sun's ZFS. It was pointed out that the
| file system is released under the GPL-incompatible CDDL, and
| that Sun has filed numerous patents to prevent ZFS from being
| reverse engineered.
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http://kerneltrap.org/node/8066
"Save a Penguin, Unplug a Linux Server" May Win Most-Flamable E-Mail Award
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| I just got an e-mail from Sun which is probably the largest violation
| of L. Ron Hubbard's Survey tech that I've ever seen. It was an e-mail
| with the title of, "Save a Penguin - Unplug a Linux Server Today".
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http://jetteroheller.wordpress.com/2007/05/03/save-a-penguin-unplug-a-linux-server-may-win-most-flamable-e-mail-award/
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