OpenSolaris Speed VS. Linux. 4206

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No, I use Galeon uses gtkmozembed, though typically I use w3m or elinks.

Yes.

They are both incompatible and equally bad. I hope that the GPLv3 will correct this, at which time I'll be happy to use it.

I am not arguing against use: I'm saying that I won't touch the sources for any *development*. I generally only write LGPL code, and only contribute to projects which use LGPL-BSD-MIT licences.

Nowadays we have a huge proliferation of mutually incompatible yet free licences. One of the great benefits of free software is that it allows a great amount of collaboration and code reuse, but incompatible licences drive a wedge right through that. The fact is, Sun has not greatly endeared themselves to quite a large number of folks through creation of Yet Another Licence.

That's an interesting point. (I think Firefox is rubbish, but I'm clearly in a minority!)

One difference between Firefox and OpenSolaris is that Mozilla-Firefox do have quite a large community of contributors in addition to its corporate backing. OpenSolaris has yet to achieve this, and I wish it success in doing so. A growing problem is with programs open-sourced by corporations which subsequently abandon them, leaving them in an unmaintained limbo. As an example, I came across a problem with libupnp last night for over two years and three months. If I was to fix the bug, to whom do I submit patches, or am I wasting my time?

In this respect, corporate-sponsored projects are rather more likely to fail than all-volunteer ones: volunteers tend to have rather longer-term commitments, and they don't get abandoned when corporate sponsorship (Intel, in this case) dries up, or employees are rebuttigned. Without a dedicated team of contributors outside Sun's payroll, OpenSolaris will be tied to and be dependent upon Sun for life support, and hence will have a lowered chance of long-term survival.

Regards, Roger

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