[OpenIndiana-discuss] Some opt to open their systems while others don't

[Jerry Kemp]

On 10/ 3/17 12:18 AM, Nikola M wrote:

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> About free vs proprietary, Openindiana/illumos currently uses Nvidia
> proprieatary drivers for desktop graphics cards and even they funcion great and
> Nvidia have probably best long term proprietary driver support, AMD lacks same
> level of commitment , but AMD now have open source drivers that could be
> supported and maintained by illumos community, so more effort and people is
> needed on making them work..

Regarding the whole open source vs commercial thing, maybe I have just been 
lucky.  Who knows?  For me, its difficult to see the justification of either 
extreme of the discussion.  I've been doing IT since the late 1980's, and the 
right answer has always been to "choose the best tool for the job", be that 
'best tool' be commercial, open source or something else.

Apple seems to still be making money 'hand over fist'.  I don't follow Red Hat 
as closely, but I assume that Red Hat is still doing similarly as well also, 
monetarily wise.

Hope I'm around long enough to see microsoft finally go down.  Too bad Ballmer 
won't be around for the comedy relief.   I've observed most large/successful 
business have their ups and downs, and also positive and negative contributions 
to the industry and technology.  In my book, no other company comes close to the 
damage done, and for the length of time that gates/ballmer/microsoft did.

>
> Maybe real reaction on this is: Any volunteers to continue porting of illumos to
> ARM? :)
>

Thanks for keeping the ARM thing alive.  I'm not a programmer, but very much 
interested in keeping things moving forward beyond x86/x86 and SPARC.  Hoping 
that everyone can agree on HW and run from there.

I closely watched the 2nd round of PPC, (not 2.5.1, the OpenSolaris one), and it 
was truly a mess, hardware wise.  My personal opinion on PPC, at this stage of 
the game is it is a great CPU in search of an OS.  Yep, I know a lot of Cisco 
routers and switches are running PPC chips, but I don't consider those general 
purpose computers that people would attempt to perform work on.


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