On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:32 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > 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.
...and along the way Theo has managed to offend everyone from the US Government to many other developers. While many value his project's technical accomplishments; I doubt OpenBSD's type of "success at all costs" is what we want to achieve. While OpenBSD can afford to do that as an independent project; Sun cannot. Sun is responsible to their shareholders. -- 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
