[Removing PSARC-ext, and adding arc-discuss since it does seem to be
related to the case anymore]
On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Garrett D'Amore <Garrett.Damore at sun.com>
wrote:
> I'm not going to disagree with your sentiments... but to date there are many
> situations where Sun's business interests trump those of the community. ?As
> long as the ON consolidation is staffed entirely by folks who owe allegiance
> to Sun (or its successors), then it will be hard to effect any change that
> allows the community to integrate "community sustained" sources.
Why ? What is the reason for that ? BTW, what is the exact definition
of "ON consolidation staff" ?
I do not seem to be able to find this on h.o.o
>
> At the end of the day, its not clear to me that this is really that great of
> a problem. ?Its perfectly reasonable to create other consolidation with
> non-Sun sources (or with sources that Sun doesn't approve of) that live side
> by side with ON. There is no intrinsic need that legacy hardware support
> stuff has to be in ON.
On the one hand I pretty much agree with you, heck, I very much agree with you.
On the other hand the idea that OpenSolaris ON consolidation is driven
entirely by Sun business needs just doesn't feel correct.
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Regards,
Cyril
