"Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Furthermore, if Sun were to go bankrupt tomorrow, I can promise you it
> would be a devastating blow to the project -- it would probably relegate
> OpenSolaris to the same level of "relevance" as BeOS or Plan 9. (Both
> of which are interesting projects in their own right, but which have
> little or no market presence.)
If there is not a suffucuent amount of collaboration with the community,
this cannot change. There are enough interested people. The problem is that
Sun needs to have a sufficient amount of Sun employees to deal with
collaboration ussues.
But people never work for free.... if you collaborate with people from outside
Sun and like to ensure that Solaris will have anough own drive after Sun may
have gone bankrupt, you have to pay with influence in decisions.
> There are projects where a lot of community involvement is already
> taking place -- ksh93, crossbow, etc. Most ARC reviews these days are
Unless otherwise proven, it seems that the ksh93 integration is a single demo
project that does not deserve being used as example.
> I have the strong impression that some in the community wish Sun would
> just go away, and do their own thing -- folks that resent that any
It seems that you missunderstand people. People like to see true collaboration.
As long as there is no true collaboration the whole community around OpenSolaris
as seen on opensolaris.org is just a fake. Note that besides this fake, there
is a community that exists since a long time and that is stable.
J?rg
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