Re: The reason to move to OpenSolaris

From: Alan Hargreaves - Product Technical Support (APAC) (Alan.Hargreaves_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 02/13/05


Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2005 09:29:08 +1100
To: Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.net>

Chris Cox wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>
>> Chris Cox <ccox_nopenotthis@airmail.net> writes in comp.unix.solaris:
>
> ...
>
>> |
>> |I'm sorry. But I am laughing quite a bit right now.
>> |Solaris gets the wheel thanks to somebody outside of Sun!!
>>
>> What are you talking about? Solaris got wheel mouse support because it
>> was added by Sun's engineers, not anyone outside of Sun.
>>
>
> Really? You mean paid by Sun to do the wheel support.. not simply
> doing it because it was needed and Sun wasn't interested... right?
> That's not what I understood to be true.

Chris, I have no idea where you are getting your informatoin from, but I
suspect you need a new source.

alan.

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Alan Hargreaves - http://blogs.sun.com/tpenta
Kernel/VOSJEC/Performance Engineer
Product Technical Support (APAC)
Sun Microsystems


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