On Jan 29, 2008 9:51 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > Shawn. > > Some of us came to OpenSolaris because we wanted an open-source > operating system that still cared about quality, rather than the > "weekend hack-fest" that the other F/LOSS operating systems have become.
I did too, believe it or not. However, room for both worlds has to be present. As I said before, Sun's rules should be applied to what Sun wants to do. The community should be the one to decide the rules for what they do. > Abandoning ARC for all but the "official Sun Value-Added" Solaris > would be the greatest tragedy in computing since AT&T sold the rights > to UNIX. I think that's exaggerating a bit. > There are plenty of open-source operating systems where weekend > hackers can dump their bad code. I'd prefer if Solaris remained the > bastion of quality in a sea of mediocrity. Solaris can remain that bastion. OpenSolaris, however, needs to be free to be what the community wants it to be. Let's face it; Solaris was fading away; then OpenSolaris happened. The processes of the last twenty or thirty years didn't allow Sun to hold its market position, so why continue to insist on them? Not all of those processes should die; I wholeheartedly believe in some of them under the right circumstances. However, the community must be free to reach its own goals and achieve its own measure of success. -- 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
