On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Jim Walker <James.Walker at sun.com> wrote: > Michal Bielicki wrote: > > > Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > >> > >> How do you define success? > >> > > Start with acceptance and userbase ? My 9 year old knows what Ubuntu is, > > my wife and grandma too. Ever tried to ask a kid what OpenSolaris is ? > > > > +1 > > That is an excellent definition of success. > Once the 9 year olds of the world include > OpenSolaris in their vocabulary we know > we are successful. >
I dunno, I should hope that attracting the best and brightest developers to the project should be a better metric for success than just sheer number of users. In this way I consider OpenBSD to be quite successful. It may not be used as much as other open-source operating systems, but they have a standard of quality and a culture of engineering excellence above and beyond the more popular OS's. -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
