On 2/20/09, Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> wrote: > Jennifer Pioch wrote: > > > > Now the great Alan Burlison comes and declares the work largest > > Opensolaris team outside Sun as unnecessary. Sounds I've wasted the 2 > > years here and should directly go to Linux. At least they honor work > > by contributors. > > Thank you. > > > > I think if anything is likely to drive people away it is unpleasant and > unnecessary emails such as the one you've just sent.
Alan, I believe Jenny has as contributor the right to be enraged. The departure of Tim Sparlins team doesn't give you the right to declare all the community work sponsored by them as obsolete and replace it with the GNU code. > I wasn't denigrating anyone, just pointing out that these things aren't > always as simple as they first seem. No, you were pointing directly to GNU. That's a difference. I'm now taking this discussion offline to Sun's management as this may be the only authority to end this debate. -- Knut Reinert, Research council chair, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
