On Apr 15, 2010, at 7:20 PM, Dennis Clarke wrote: > > You're version of open source and community seems to be one that is driven > by, and controlled by, a large corporate entity. > > By now, after some five years of the OpenSolaris project, we the members > of the community that existed long before Sun or Oracle decided it was a > good marketing tool, should be able to just use the source and build a > distro from scratch.
I've been involved with opensource for a very long time and I'm aware of the ambiguity that is the word 'community' and how it can be used at will as both carrot and stick. I have no personal version of it. I distinctly recall the howls of travesty when ActiveState decided to give the Perl 'pumpkins', aka gatekeepers, a regular paying job so they could do the job without having to lose sleep or family time in addition to their day job. The variety of accusations ranged from hostile corporate takeover of perl to suggesting that it would be only for windows/pc, that they'd charge for a special more functional version, etc. when, as far as I am aware of, none of the fears were ever proven to be correct. > What we have is confusion. Lack of information. > A powerless and largely useless OGB. Well, that's not due to 'fear and silence' from those of us with oracle.com addresses. As I said, please do contact the right channels to try and obtain the information you're looking for and do try to remember that we are not the enemy. e. _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
