Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> ...
I had a long "chat" with several Sun VP/Director types after the latest
Solaris' All Hands meeting about OpenSolaris. My biggest take-away
was:
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We need an operational definition for the term "OpenSolaris"
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As in:
An OS developer says "OpenSolaris", but really means
"the source base managed by the ON Community on
www.opensolaris.org".
An enthusiastic academic says "OpenSolaris", but really
means "the web site, communities and discussions hosted
on the server at www.opensolaris.org".
A student at Tsinghua University in Beijing says
"OpenSolaris", but really means "?????".
A committed distro developer says "OpenSolaris", but
really means "the set of source trees managed by the
various community groups on www.opensolaris.org, plus
all the various distros that are built out of that
source".
A Technical Marketing whiz at Sun says "OpenSolaris",
but really means "a new distro, built out of the various
sources found out on www.opensolaris.org and elsewhere
that is intended to become, like Ubuntu, a valued reference
distro that could be the basis for many other derivative
distros as well as a new Sun product".
A webmaster says "OpenSolaris", but really means "the
web-app that is hosted on www.opensolaris.org".
... I'm sure there are others as well...
We've all seen the conflicts that come up when people try
to have a conversation, but it turns out that each has
their own conflicting definition for OpenSolaris:
Ian says "I want OpenSolaris to be ...", meaning that
he wants to explore the creation of a new distro, and
immediately Alan tries to make sense of the proposal
in terms of someone hijacking the ON Community...
No wonder tempers flare :-)
-John
