On 8/13/10 10:26 PM, John Plocher wrote: > +---- Feb 10, 2006, from Sun: > http://hub.opensolaris.org/bin/view/Community+Group+ogb/charter > | Whereby Sun Microsystems, Inc. (Sun) has granted license to a certain > | subset of its Solaris Operating System, known henceforth as OpenSolaris, > | to all under terms compatible with Open Source ideals, and whereby > | open and constructive development and dissemination of this code base > | is desired by all, Sun does by the execution of this charter all of the > | following: First, establish an OpenSolaris Governing Board (OGB) to > | manage and direct an OpenSolaris community in its efforts to improve > | upon and advocate in favor of OpenSolaris, so that the community may > | long endure. ... > +---- > > compared to > > +---- Today, Friday, 13 August, 2010, from Oracle: > http://pastebin.com/YtuvZkUJ > | We (Oracle) will distribute updates to approved CDDL or other open > | source-licensed code following full releases of our enterprise Solaris > | operating system. In this manner, new technology innovations will > | show up in our releases before anywhere else. We will no longer > | distribute source code for the entirety of the Solaris operating > | system in real-time while it is developed, on a nightly basis. > +---- > > That's all Folks, > > It seems Oracle is no longer interested in working with an external > community to develop new versions of Solaris. Without such a > partnership, there is no longer any way for our OpenSolaris > development community to continue as it was chartered. Rather than > continue waiting for a more positive outcome, I believe it is time to > let Oracle reconstitute things under some other umbrella, if they so > choose. In order to facilitate an orderly transition, I will call for > a motion to officially dissolve the OpenSolaris Governing Board at the > OGB's 8am (California time) meeting on August 23: > > http://wiki.genunix.org:8080/wiki/index.php/2010_08_23_OGB_Agenda > > I fondly recall all the OpenSolaris Summits where many of us got > together, drank together, and had a great time building a community > together. The same goes for all those visits in various cities where > we somehow again managed to find a pub and meet face to face... > Anyone else up for a good ol' Irish wake? > > As the old CB radio chatter would have it, and apropos of the new and > vibrant IllumOS effort: "10-4 on a great road trip, good buddies; > catch you all again on the flip side".
No motion is required, you already passed it last month: http://wiki.genunix.org:8080/wiki/index.php/2010_07_12_OGB_Agenda benr. _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
