On 02/28/08 12:54, Joerg Schilling wrote: > This is a missunderstanding: The Solaris cummunity did exist long before > OpenSolaris was even planned.
Solaris predates OpenSolaris, agreed > There was a petition for opensourcing Solaris in 1993: > > http://www.bitmover.com/lm/papers/srcos.html > > There have been many other people including me who frequently asked to > opensource Solaris. For other onformation here, please search for "the secret > six": > > > http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=the+secret+six+solaris&btnG=Suche&meta= > > > As you see, "The OpenSolaris cummunity" was not launched by Sun, it existed There's a big leap there. The "secret six" are instrumental in convincing Sun that Solaris x86 should be revived; a number of suggestions to opensource Solaris are also made, understandably. And from that we deduce that the OpenSolaris community existed before Sun planned the current project? I'd agree that a "open(source) Solaris, please" movement existed, but what you state seems a stretch. > before. Many of the problems we currently see in discussins are most likely > caused by the fact that too few people know about this. Alan DuBoff from time > to > time mentiones it but people seem to forget about this fact. I believe that > most if not all problems with missunderstaning each other would disappear if > those Sun engineers who junoed on the wagon lately would be informed about > what happened before OpenSolaris was first published on June 14th 2005. You know, large numbers of Sun employees have been around more than a year or two and were familiar with the process before day 1, attended internal presentations on progress, followed the internal wiki with all the info and minutes etc. You see many of them present and active in these forums today. Gavin -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 3249 bytes Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080228/b0bb5f32/attachment.bin>
