> During the ABA national annual meeting being held in > Honolulu this week, I met the general counsel for > China's "Linux Industry League". He expressed great > interest in the OpenSolaris starter kit idea, though > he admitted that, as an open-source advocate himself > who is also heavily involved in helping the Chinese > government developing its software policy, he never > heard "Open" Solaris. Not even the slightest idea > whatsoever.
Cool. :) Someone new to talk to. Thanks for having the conversation with him, too. I totally get that notion that more people don't know we are open than do know we are open. That's our opportunity, and I view it as a significantly positive issue. It's also good news that he likes the starter kit idea. I've gotten the same reaction here in Japan (and I'm new to the start kit). Perhaps Joey and the guys in China can follow up with him. Thanks, Wayne. Jim > With a physically distributable (& describable) > medium in the form of a set of DVDs, he said he won't > have any problem asking his people to take a look at > Solaris. In fact he probably will never be bothered > if he has to ask someone to go through the kind of > process as I described in a separate post. (Sun also > doesn't help the problem by maxing out the download > speed at less than 200 KB/s--& I am talking about > downloading within the US.) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org
