I think the central issue is that there is a conflation of two very different things: an OpenIB release, and distributions of that OpenIB release. In my opinion, the correct consumers to have in my when thinking of the OpenIB release are the _distributors_: Red Hat, Novell, Debian, Ubuntu or any other vendors who feel that they can provide value by packaging, distributing and supporting the OpenIB release.
OpenIB should not think of the release as also being a distribution. OpenIB has no capacity to provide support (no phone lines, no field engineers, etc), and it doesn't make sense to try and build this capacity to compete with commercial vendors who already have it. The standard in the open source world, as exemplified by projects such as the Linux kernel, the Gnome project, KDE, X.org, gcc, etc, etc, is for the open source project to focus on producing a release that distributors can package and get to end users. It is _not_ on producing something that anyone other than the most sophisticated early adopters on the bloodiest bleeding edge will install directly. - R. _______________________________________________ openib-general mailing list [email protected] http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general To unsubscribe, please visit http://openib.org/mailman/listinfo/openib-general
