I really hesitated to post anything about OpenSXCE because I didn’t want to open people up to another Martin-bashing contest. And immediately after hitting the “Send” button, I had the thought, “I really should have sent that privately to Peter.” But that thought came just a hair too late, unfortunately.
I like Martin a lot. He doesn’t have any interest whatsoever in what I think is important, but I like him. So let’s please not have yet another ugly exchange about him. It’s always easier to find fault with someone than to support him. After all, to support a person takes a lot more work, and virtue. Personally, if I had sparc gear, and couldn’t find a better OS for it, and if I thought OpenSXCE would be a reasonably decent solution for us, I’d offer Martin some money for paid support. I bet he’d be give world-class support for a pittance compared to anyone else — for it would give him some money to eat with. If I’m jumping the gun here, please forgive me — but let’s all please be nice about Martin. There has been far too much fault-finding with him already. For what it’s worth, I’d appreciate it. Cordially, Peter, hieromonk On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Nikola M. <minik...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 09/ 8/14 11:07 AM, Jim Klimov wrote: >> His mood about the ability of both sides to collaborate did fluctuate over >> time, but the last I heard from his blog, he did intend to push his sources >> into the public space. Ne is just wary that more commercialy apt sharks >> would take his multi-year and multi-dollar investment baby, for granted and >> for free, earn money for themselves and leave him on the curb > One can not protect personal time and work investment in free software > projects that way, > but with developing in open and in continuing collaborative effort. > Best way of protecting your work actually and keep derived work able to be > used is to be publicly visible with changes, so no one can tell it is anyone > else's contribution, but yours. > > Word is that people tend to buy support contracts from people that know their > stuff and that can fix things for people using software products used in > production. > > One of things that lure people in using free software and software developed > with open source model, > is that there is not a single party that can produce working product out of > code. > On contrary, that right is explicitly allowed to the end user/customer with > all benefits of being able to change software you are using to better fit > yourself. > > Martin is simply wrong with not releasing and developing in open. > it's obviously not doing it any good nor for anyone else. Not to mention > licenses for software require code to be released on every binary release to > _anyone_. > > In other words, when asking: What's first, chicken or an egg? Answer is > truly: a Chick. > > _______________________________________________ > openindiana-discuss mailing list > openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ openindiana-discuss mailing list openindiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
