* S Destika ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Well, that's good to hear - I was just being impatient then. > > What's the difference between Linus forcing and Sun forcing - Well isn't that > an obvious one - Sun is a company with commercial interests and Linus has > proved himself to be a unbiased individual - he carefully avoids being > employed by any Linux vendor which is a well known fact.
In what way has Linus shown himself to be unbiased. He certainly does not let just any and every proposed code change to the kernel integrate. There are numerous examples of this. Off the top of my head, the whole EVMS/LVM issue comes to mind. > You are on the CAB which again is appointed by Sun and so far looks to me is > driven more by Sun's interests and concerns rather than the CAB's. (2 months > is enough time for anyone with technical skills and attitude to set up a > Source control system and starting to involve people to contribute code - the > fact that all of the promised things are still in the clutches of bureaucracy > proves just that - Sun is putting a lot of overhead into the process guarding > it's own concerns and interests.) Perhaps in a new project that has no legacy ties to anything, 2 months is enough time to get a source control system in place. OpenSolaris however has a legacy tie, and that is to Solaris. It's going to take some time to get the "flow" in and out of Sun perfected in regards to the code. As has been discussed, it's being worked. I believe it was deemed better to get the code out there sooner than wait for everything to be perfect. Last I checked, RedHat took a *very* (far greater than 2 months) long time to allow outside contributions to the Fedora project. In fact, I don't know if they've even achieved that yet (it's been a while since I checked admittedly). -- Glenn Lagasse Sun Microsystems, Inc. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
