On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:28 AM, Justin Erenkrantz <justin at erenkrantz.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> > wrote: > > > Really? Everyone else, including OpenSolaris Engineering, and everyone > > > I know within Solaris engineering had that understanding. > > > > I think that's my point. *within Solaris engineering*; it was very > > poorly communicated to external people. > > No, it was clearly communicated to me as an external party as part of > the pilot program and was a centerpiece of most discussions I had with > Sun folks about OpenSolaris. The community needed to own the name, > otherwise we all felt that it'd be crippled. And, we were repeatedly > assured by Sun that such crippling would not happen. -- justin
The pilot program, which was not public to us, is not recorded anywhere, and doesn't apply as far as I'm concerned. If those promises were really made, then why is there no written record of them given how important they seem to be? This sounds more like a game of telephone than it does formal agreement. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
