David.Comay at Sun.COM wrote:
>> Personally, I'd like to see these things put through the Sun/Solaris 
>> engineering thought process. Too often in the OSS world things get 
>> done without much consideration to how they fit into the larger 
>> scheme of things. I'd hate to think we just pulling this stuff in 
>> without giving it the same consideration we give to things that 
>> originate in Solaris.
>
> I think it's a good idea to always apply good engineering judgement
> here and definitely seeing how a particular component integrates with
> OpenSolaris is important.  However, if we needlessly change expected
> interfaces with an eye towards "improving" them, we risk being
> incompatible with the way the rest of the world interacts with that
> component.  The end result is likely many potential users not being
> able to make the adjustment/transition to using that component on an
> OpenSolaris-based platform.
We also take the risk of being better, than just "me too".

I understand that there is a balancing act here.

Later....

- jek3



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