On Monday 12 June 2006 10:58 pm, Karyn Ritter wrote: > I'm wondering if people in the Bay Area want together for drinks on the > anniversary (Wed., 6/14). I was thinking perhaps the Oasis Beer Garden > in Menlo Park ( http://www.yelp.com/biz/SaqyQPrK5Byv_wxfeHGYdg ). > > Starting at 6pm for a couple of hours? > > Hope to see you there! > > - Karyn > > P.S. This will be a self-hosted event.
BTW, John Weekley is in town on training for his company. I'm trying to get John to make it to this event. For those that might not know, John was one of the secret six, along with me, Bruce Riddle, Phil Brown, Carl Erhorn, Sascha Ferely (sp?). John made a monumental comment during the meeting when Anil Gadre suggested we run Linux on our x86 hardware. A quick and terse response was sent back to Anil promptly from John's mouth which plainly said, "[EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux". There was a deafening silence in the room after that while Anil Gadre and co. fished for a response to John...<LOL!> The more they responded, the more they continued to dig themself into a hole. By the end of the meeting they realized that the Solaris x86 community was not about to roll over and play dead... That was Feb. 11, 2002. Here we are more than 4 years later, and while I see folks complain that Solaris can't do this or do that...it has come a mighty long way. At the time I was trying to see if it was possible for the community to work on the x86 portion, not fully understanding the sources were the same, and that if it was possible for Sun to opensource Solaris on x86, maybe the community could bring the subsystems current. Most of the other folks laughed at my suggestion...the response was, "it will never happen". In March of 2002 I spoke with Neal Pollack on the phone, and Neal let me know the cold hard truth about the "state of Solaris on x86", and quite honestly it was pretty dissmal. Here we are more than 4 years later. Neal Pollack is back at the reins, and from my perspective Solaris was given a new lease on life. Subsystems are being re-written, new subsystems are being added, this is a breath of fresh air. We are celebrating the 1 year anniversary of Solaris as a open and free system. And while it's not perfect and while we still have some closed binaries in the sources, we're not in a position to get rid of them and have a completely free and open system in the end. Happy Anniversary too all the folks that have worked their @$$e$ off to make this happen, from Bonnie Corwin who struggled with all the legal issues, to Stephen, Karyn, Eric, Jim, Teresa, Linda, Derek, and a host of others that I'm certainly forgetting... But most importantly, even if you can't make it to Menlo Park to join us tomorrow night, tip a cold one, or burn a hot one, for all of us...because it's important to know that, "we're not dead yet".;-) -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
