Worse, quoting himself as proof... ;-)
You(Jennifer Pioch) wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dave Johnson
> <dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene?
> >
> > David
> >
> > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > From: Dave Johnson <dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com>
> > Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:44 PM
> > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2010.03, when will it be
> > available?
> > To: "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlha...@smart.net>
> > Cc: opensolaris-disc...@opensolaris.org, indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org
> >
> >
> > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net>
> > wrote:
> >>> Slide 22 is also very interesting and gives me a lot
> >>> of reassurance:
> >>>
> >>> OpenSolaris
> >>> Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available
> >>> as open source and
> >>> Oracle will continue to actively support and
> >>> participate in the
> >>> OpenSolaris community
> >>> Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did
> >>> prior to the
> >>> acquisition, and will continue to contribute
> >>> innovative technologies to
> >>> OpenSolaris, as Oracle already does for many other
> >>> open source projects
> >>>
> >>> Coming from Oracle there's no longer any doubt that
> >>> it will be alright.
> >>> I'm going to be an OpenSolairs user for quite some
> >>> time to come. ;-)
> >>
> >> While that presentation was indeed reassuring, from the
> >> reactions I've seen so far, many seem to hope that
> >> "participate in the OpenSolaris community" would include
> >> less restrictive communication than it appears is allowed
> >> by the current application of their policies to OpenSolaris.
> >>
> >> I see open source plus community meaning, when it wouldn't
> >> compromise competitive information about a pending product,
> >> that the development process and activity is also open, to include
> >> some information about _planned_ components thereof, as well.
> >>
> >> One of the many reasons for more open communication is that
> >> outside contributors should be entitled to a little courtesy when
> >> their work is affected (look at ksh93-discuss to see a case of that).
> >
> > Oracle doesn't want the command modernisation and ksh93 projects. They
> > had too much community influence in the past, are too independent and
> > Oracle wants to replace the Solaris commands in usr/bin with GNU
> > commands. Oracle has already decided that in February and now try to
> > get rid of the projects by denying them repository access.
> > The projects are dead. There is enough evidence what Oracle is planning.
> >
> > Dave
>
> Where's your "evidence", troll?
>
> Jenny
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