Hello Bill, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:28:32 PM, you wrote:
BR> On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Stephen Lau wrote: >> I don't understand why there is so much animosity being expressed here. The >> companion CD project, SunFreeware, and Blastwave have all co-existed >> peacefully prior to this discussion. Keith's proposal is to bring the >> companion CD project into the open community. Why is this so wrong? BR> I say this as someone who has no vested interest in Blastwave, BR> Sunfreeware, or the companion CD but I still don't see the point, the BR> "community" already has a more than one "project" to get pre-built open BR> source software. I still can not see a reason to create yet another BR> project unless there is something fundamentally wrong with the existing BR> projects. I have no animosity towards Keith's proposal, just scratching BR> my head and still wondering why it is even needed. Solaris/OpenSolaris BR> has SFW so everything else you are on your own for anyway. I myself would prefer open source software based on libraries already included in Solaris (like OpenSSL) - something I can't get with Blastwave. BR> Besides Dennis has said something like this several times in this thread BR> alone: if you think blastwave sucks then join the group and help fix BR> things. I heard that already from some Linux guys - why bother with Open Solaris - there's already Linux, if there's something wrong come and join us and help fix things... Fortunately there's no one answer to all problems. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
