[Info-vax] Oracle to buy HP ????

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/1/2011 7:34 AM, MG wrote:
> On 1-10-2011 3:01, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
>> Not wanting to spend resources on developing the open source
>> version, but allowing a community effort to continue with
>> the code?
>
> So, is that why all Solaris users are happier than they could
> possibly be?

They are not very happy.

But they should be more realistic.

It is very difficult to make a business case for a company
to do the majority of the work on a big OS and then let
everybody get the result for free and even let them distribute
modifications.

Arne