Keith M Wesolowski wrote:
> The cost of acting
> closed should not just be higher, it should be extremely high, so high
> that no vendor acting in its shareholders' interests could possibly
> accept it.
Huh? There are many reasons for doing "closed" projects - and we have
seen many of them here already:
1) The code in question is not owned by the team doing the
integration work, and the owners do not wish to allow
their work to be opened. The CDDL explicitly allows
such activity. There is no reason why the integration
work couldn't be OPEN and the thing being integrated
CLOSED.
2) The code in question is for something that has not yet
been publicly announced. For various reasons (SEC,
Patent, Competition, ...) the timing of when the
intellectual property is exposed may be extremely
important. Again, the CDDL allows such activity.
I'm sure that there are other reasons as well, not all of
them evil and/or against shareholder interests.
> Nor is it really our problem. From our perspective these are all just
> "vendor consolidations."
I would like to inject a bit of reality into your perspective. At
least for you, me, and the other Sun employee Community leaders,
as Sun employees spending Sun resources on OpenSolaris, we ARE
expected to make this our problem. We need to look at things
thru two perspectives at the same time - the OpenSolaris one
AND the Sun one, and where possible, ethical, etc, work to bring
about outcomes and solutions that benefit /both/ parties.
At an extreme, for any of us employees to spend our company's
resources on things that are explicitly detrimental to our
company would be at least immoral and probably a violation of
our employment agreements.
This is true for ANY company out there who is sponsoring their
employees to work with/on OpenSolaris - the reason you are being
paid to do this is because the company paying you to do so expects
fair representation from you in the community.
In closing, it is not, should not, and (IMHO) must not ever be the case
where the OpenSolaris Community sets itself up explicitly to sabotage
commercial involvement and use of its activities and artifacts. If you
feel strongly that your work-product should never be used by commercial
vendors, please do us all a favor and go elsewhere.
-John
