Is Solaris truly open source?
Lately, every time we interview Bill Vass, president of Sun Federal, he bemoans how Sun software isn't considered open source. He's right. Sure, everyone knows Java and Solaris are open source, but you rarely hear those names brandied about during discussions of open source. You hear "Linux, Apache, MySQL, Perl" but then no one ever adds "Solaris" onto that list.
It depends on what your definition of open source is, I guess. In a strict sense, Vass is correct. Most all of the Solaris and Java code is indeed available for download. And we have no doubt Sun is serious about open source. The company is certainly not just open-sourcing dead software in order to cash in on the buzz.
But if you dig into the idea of open source, there still is an ideological connotation to its definition, for better or worse. It's the idea of community development.
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