[svlug] Fedora or Ubuntu for novis

[Karen Shaeffer]

On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 07:28:54PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote:
> On Sat, 13 Sep 2008, Don Marti wrote:
> 
> > The main problem with getting companies to make code Free is 
> > _not_ managers acting in the interests of their shareholders 
> > or in their own interest. The main problem is just inertia. 
> > If the policy at a company has been "never release source 
> > code" you have to do something to make it happen the first 
> > time, and you can't justify putting in the time to do it 
> > unless you can say that you have to.
> 
> I agree with you. In fact, as an example, Sun did encourage LSI 
> to release a driver under open source recently, it was the first 
> time for LSI to do that.

Hi,
I have a tough time with this statement. LSI has open source drivers
in the Linux kernel. They've been there for a while. They maintain
them. Last I looked, Sun doesn't contribute any code to the Linux
kernel. I have a question Alan. You do work with the Open Solaris
project, right? Maybe you are referring to LSI open sourcing Open
Solaris drivers?

Thanks,
Karen
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