What Sun was trying to do with Open Solaris
Read OriginalThe article examines Sun Microsystems' underlying motives for launching OpenSolaris, arguing that Sun primarily sought to build an ecosystem for application developers rather than foster a kernel-hacking community. It critiques the resulting mismatch in expectations, slow adoption of open-source tools, and the tactical marketing benefits Sun gained by calling Solaris 'open' without fully embracing external community development.
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