On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 11:00 PM, John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com>wrote:
> [ Replying to myself is always a bad sign :-) ] > Not always :D > > On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 1:05 PM, John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> > quoted Oracle's Tech Days presentation: > > • Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available... > > Oracle will continue to actively support and participate > > • Oracle is investing more in Solaris ... > > (Oracle) will continue to contribute innovative technologies to > OpenSolaris > > I get the impression this is a one-way street - value only flows from > Oracle to the Community. No mention of the value that the community > itself produces; the comment about investing more in their proprietary > Solaris seems to imply that Oracle's focus has moved *away* from our > open source community... > 100% agreee. In our local community have, for this year, several milestones. One of them is to contribute with more code and/or testing to the OpenSolaris distros. This is why we are so excited about future releases, available source code, and a bit of light about the direction we'll take in order to help improve Osol. > > Under Sun's direction, there was a desire and commitment to > participate fully in the OpenSolaris open source community, by > contributing innovative technologies to the community, by taking > leadership roles in the community and by incorporating the work of the > community back into its products. What Oracle really desires is still > unstated, but their actions are speaking pretty loudly. > Thanks, John! Best regards, HeCSa. > > -John > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss > -- HeCSa
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