Thanks James for taking the time to write - it clearly shows you guys are willing to listen, which is a good thing.
I can't make it more simpler than this - OpenSolaris needs a third, independent party here controlling and running the show - someone whom people trust to be unbiased and not driven by commercial interests. (That excludes Sun and Sun appointed people.) Other wise as I said the scale will be small - And when I said "Sun's limited customers" I didn't mean it to say Sun is small and has very less customers - I just wanted to point whatever 'x' that is it is still limited compared to the BIG things OSS is capable of producing. (See how many projects are supporting Linux - Did one of your customers thinked/needed creating KDE, GNOME, ALSA? No. So they are still limited to running big iron boxes to solve one specific problem.) If Sun continues to be at the forefront - take my word for it, most people will not contribute as they will always suspect the most obvious thing. Unless Sun encourages community to be on their own and not influence things you will never see, for example, OpenSolaris full of hardware support , running on all sorts of lovely embedded devices etc. In other words, you are pointing me towards a pot full of water and I am pointing you towards the ocean. Pot is full and successful and serves it's limited purpose well but it still is not that big as the ocean. Pot can join the ocean and be a part of the collective movement or stay on it's on. Sun has made the first mistake with CDDL - they no longer can benefit from the load of GPL software and the huge movement that it is, but more importantly they managed to differentiate themselves as the pot from the ocean. But there is always a hope of building a parallel ocean - let's see how Sun stands up to that cause. Answer this - What OpenSolaris gives you in addition to what Linux already has? If you differentiated, then there needs to be a substantial difference. I can't see how the license matters as most projects in OSS are happy with GPL. You have to think on what basis you will be attracting people, why will people feel motivated to contribute. Tell me 2 (solid && logical) reasons. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
