On Wed, 22.07.09 13:40, Jason D. Clinton ([email protected]) wrote: > > However, for people who make their living developing GNOME software, IMHO > > it behooves them as professional open source software engineers to respect > > the requirements of the other people who will be using the code they write, > > insofar as those requirements are known up front. And right now, every > > professional GNOME developer knows up front that GNOME isn't confined to > > running on Linux, so that should figure fairly strongly into their design > > work. > > I am extremely grateful for all that Sun has done to move GNOME forward over > the years--indeed much of that has benefited everyone including Linux. But, > pardon me for pointing out the pink elephant in the room: why doesn't Sun > just admit that (Open)Solaris is a dead-end? > > I mean, we all understood that Solaris was proprietary until recently. But > now that Sun has admitted that wasn't going to work, why not just go the > next logical step? ZFS is nice and all but you *do* hold the copyright. If > the right managerial decision were to be made--say tomorrow--we wouldn't be > having this conversation and Sun wouldn't even be out any business.
Please don't turn this in pointless and off-topic flamewar about the point or pointlessness of Solaris. Lennart -- Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. lennart [at] poettering [dot] net http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
