"Garrett D'Amore" <garr...@damore.org> wrote:
> One critical thing that folks need to realize, is that profit means that
> you reap more reward than you invest. Sustaining a project like a port
> to a new CPU architecture is going to be *expensive*. So the potential
> gains have to be significant here to make the effort seem worthwhile.
You make the mistake to believe that such a port can only be made by people
from Oracle. In order to allow such a port to be made by people from the
community outside of Oracle, a good collaboration and more opennes is needed.
If such a port is ready _and_ integrated into the main code base, all parties
may profit from the availability.
BTW: this is exactly what we proposed how OpenSolaris should be developed while
on the OpenSolaris Summit on September 2004. Sun should work on the code that
is helpful to Sun and the community should work on the code that is helpful to
the community.
> Then there is another thing to consider. Such effort requires the time
> of talented engineers, which are in limited supply. So, the potential
> profit on such an effort (weighed by some calculation of "likelihood" of
> realizing such profit) needs to be greater than the profit that would be
> realized (with the same factoring again) if those engineer(s) were
> tasked elsewhere.
They exist even though you might not believe it.....
To make an example, I remember a Sun User Group meeting in December 1990
where I asked the Sun kernel crew at the developer forum whether I could port
the segment driver I wrote for a S-BUS<->VME-BUS adaptor to allow us to access
the RAM from our Berthold image processor from SunOS. A guy from the Sun
developers forum was really astonished and told as that Sun does not expect
customers to write such code. At the same time, a developer from OCÉ stand up
and said that he also did write a segment driver.
> PS: In my own personal opinion, there is almost zero *net* value in the
> "Open Development" process where we run open ARC cases and invite
> external developers to partake in product development. I would hazard a
Well, this is a result of how the process is run. Give more power to the people
from the community and things will change.
Jörg
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