Re: we were opensource, once
Re: we were opensource, once
- Subject: Re: we were opensource, once
- From: Gary <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:15:43 -0700
Michael L Torrie wrote:
Unlike fellow enterprise competitors like RedHat, Apple's darwin bug
tracking system is not open and I was not able to see if my problems
had already been reported. ... Had this been RedHat, I could have had
dialogs with the RedHat engineers and developers over this.
Red Hat is just as guilty of hiding their dirty laundry. Take this
for example:
[PATCH] read() sometimes crashes in the second pthread_set_canceltype
call (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=130926)
This is a major 2.4 linux kernel patch that fixes a serious flaw in the
POSIX threading library in RH Enterprise Linux 2.1 -- an OS that's been
around for a few years now. Strangely enough, even when logged in to my
Red Hat bugzilla account, I'm told that I am not authorized to access
that particular bug ID.
These are the things I have
come to expect and rely on in my traditional Linux world.
You are forgetting that Apple, HP, IBM, SGI, Sun Microsystems, Intel,
nVidia, ATI, VIA, Red Hat, Novell, etc. are all businesses that sell
highly competitive products and will continue to do anything to stay
in business and make money for themselves and shareholders -- even
if it is under the guise of allegedly contributing to the open
source community. I can't deny that some of these companies have
contributed significiantly to the open source community -- some more
than others -- but one shouldn't be surprised when they hold their
cards close to their chest. I would imagine that Sun is going to
face similar challenges with Open Solaris. Who's going to want to
give freely to a project that is unlikely to give much back?
-Gary
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