David J. Orman wrote:
>
> On May 30, 2006, at 5:34 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> Feel the love.
>>> -Shawn
>>
>> And with that fine message from Shawn, I'd like to propose an end of
>> thread. This conversation isn't productive, scares the living crap out
>> of me each time I start writing the OpenSolaris weekly news, and
>> discourages people from posting value to the lists.
>>
>> Take this to private mail or IRC please.
>>
> The original topic is very important to OSOL, I don't think discussion
> of it should cease due to one user's actions. This *is* an important
> issue, but we should not all have to "pay" for one particular user's
> opinions if it is indeed so bad we are being urged to simply stop
> discussion.
We should not stop discussion to get a solution. I do find the
discussion have been strangely circling around having Sun to pay Adobe
Acrobat. Acrobat is closed software, this is not the long term solution.
We should look more towards OSS, the topic of discussion should be PDF
Reader for Solaris x86, personally I think.
Granted gpdf is not a very good, so it is dropped by the OS
community, evince is better, and will get a lot better if Adobe is not
releasing free reader for the various platforms. Adobe acrobat is a good
case study for 'evilness' of closed source 'free' software [1].
Well, lets assume we go "free software and free love" - someone has to create this software - and with 5000 employees given the sack at Sun, wouldn't of it been bettter to direct those 5000 (lets assume 1,000 were programmers) or so to put together a decent Adobe Acrobat replacement?
I mean, sure, if 5000 were just sitting around with nothing to do, then sure, let them go, but givent he laundry list of things that need to be done in OpenSolaris/Solaris, Sun should be hiring, not firing.
Matty
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