Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
>> To make it an attractive destination for other companies,
>> besides Sun, to donate cash/hardware.
>
> And what would we do with that? (Really - I'm coming from
> a background of the X.Org Foundation, which is having a hard
> time finding ways to spend it's cash - it's not enough to hire
> a stable of full-time developers, so has avoided paying for
> projects so it doesn't fall into the same hole as Debian and
> other projects who paid people but by doing so, had volunteers
> decide they didn't want to work on it without pay, for a net
> loss of people working on the project. Obviously Sun is
> already paying many OpenSolaris developers, so the dynamics
> here would be different.)
>
>> Or is making OpenSolaris attractive for other companies
>> to back not a goal of OpenSolaris?
>
> It's not one I've ever seen anyone list as a goal.
>
>> Isn't anyone in the least bit interested seeing OpenSolaris
>> actually be able to employ people or pay for things itself
>> rather than depend on the good will of Sun to do it all?
>
> You really see enough people or companies donating the sum
> required to hire anyone? I can't see $100,000+ falling into
> our lap anytime soon.
>
Hmm... but I *can* imagine bounties for development effort being
offered. As well as SoC type sponsorships. Those kinds of effort are
very useful, and cost far far less than actually hiring a well paid
engineer.
-- Garrett
