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Dear Sun Microsystems,

I wonder if the mythical "Project Indiana" consists of patches like these which among other strange things make the Avahi daemon just a frontend to the Apple Bonjour daemon. Given that Avahi is a superset of Bonjour in both functionality and API this is just so ridiculuous -- I haven't seen such a monstrous crack in quite a while.

Sun, you don't get it, do you? That way you will only reach the crappiness, bugginess and brokeness of Windows, not the power and usability of Linux.

Oh, and please rename that "fork" of Avahi to something completely different -- because it actually is exactly that: something completely different than Avahi.

Love,

Lennart

posted at: 14:07 | path: /projects | permanent link to this entry | 4 comments

Posted by thebluesgnr at Wed Jun 13 14:37:43 2007
I believe they are allowed to use the avahi name for compatibility purposes, just as IcedTea doesn't have to rename classes in order to avoid trademark issues.

With that said, you should seriously consider trying to raise this issue with the OpenSolaris community and hear what they have to say about it. What they're doing is not a good idea. :(

Posted by ieon at Wed Jun 13 15:54:05 2007
Might also be worth sticking a 'This is not the opinion of my employer... blah, blah' somewhere :)

Posted by Tomas Ögren at Wed Jun 13 21:54:54 2007
See http://dar-k.blogspot.com/2007/06/avahi-what-happened-on-solaris.html for information about why this was done..

Posted by SP at Fri Jun 15 14:22:56 2007
Uh. There exists POSIX on DOS environments.

see DJGPP (which would probably be old time free software users first experience with free software).

In fact, at one point in MSFT's history, they viewed POSIX as where they were going (MS Dos 3.3 had a lot of changes that were meant to get it more inline w/ POSIX with the eventually idea that Xenix would be the migration path. However, when OS/2 was started, they lost interest in that path (and eventually in OS/2 as well).

It pays to know history.

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