Report: Sun Open Storage

[Karl Goetz]

On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 07:45 -0700, Aaron Toponce wrote:
> Why doesn't this surprise me? When Sun Microsystems started on their
> "open source" escapade, I was excited. A proprietary company turning
> over a new leaf. However, over the past few years, all I've seen is

Sun has always done *lots* of open standards stuff.

> proprietary solutions using open source products, such as what you've
> described here. Rather disappointing, but not surprising in any manner.

It is a bit disapointing how limited the openness is.

> Thanks for the report.

That said, Sun is actively trying to free the RPC code in a number of
projects (see the debian-devel list atm), so they are not *all* bad :)
kk

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Karl Goetz <karl at kgoetz.id.au>
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