Better Tools

October 12, 2005 11:37 pm General

Mikael, there’s absolutely nothing stopping you from installing OpenSolaris/Solaris and using DTrace though – I and others would encourage it. Those tools are still available, and it might even run on your choice of hardware. Don’t forget the CDDL is just an attempt to stop the proliferation of software licenses – it’s a filed based, templated license, with the Mozilla Public License under the hood, and it was chosen for pretty good reasons, I believe.

Obviously there’s also nothing to stop you from taking those ideas and reimplementing them somewhere else – Jonathan even said so publically at OSCON, ‘knock yourself out’. The BSD guys are already on that path, with some Sun engineers helping them along the way. I’m sure the SystemTap guys will learn from DTrace as well, with time.

DTrace on OSX then, Mikael? *cough*

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