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>>>>> "rm" == Raymond Meyer <raymond.meyer@rambler.ru> writes:

    rm> And why would that be??

because the free-as-in-freedom Sun promised has not materialized yet.
solaris ships on 5 CD's, while the opensolaris source tarball is only
about 60MB, and they continue to quietly commit brand-new Sun-written
closed-source drivers.  i want to be optimistic, but there is still a
real chance they will pull a Darwin.

so far in this latest round of Sun hype, they seem to be delivering
things ~1yr after they're promised, but the final product does live up
to their claims.  I hope that trend continues, and that they manage to
build a modern free platform for us and nail it to the ground so it
doesn't get washed away like alpha.  But IMHO my #1 rule for Sun right
now is: don't repeat their claims as fact unless I've seen it myself.

that's disappointing about sybase playing the same
what-they-think-the-customer-can-bear game as wolfram.  sounds like
they risk pricing themselves into the stone age like the Lisp
companies.

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