On Thursday 01 February 2007 12:57 pm, James C. McPherson wrote: > Yes, the number of those who would call themselves part of the > OpenSolaris community is probably not as large as Linux-adherents, > but who really cares? Why does it matter?
Hear, hear! One thing is for certain...the Linux community shook the world. Here we are discussing our existince with them, it's something we can't ignore. I am in no way advocating we join them, I am in no way saying we follow them, I am merely advocating for a way both of us can exist with each other peacefully. I would appreciate it if our OpenSolaris community is recognized by other communities as being some of the innovators, and I think OpenSolaris is already by many. It is not mandatory that we are though, and I won't loose sleep over it if we aren't. Sun has made a massive amount of changes to their process and code in order to make it available in the community, something that was a far fetched idea a couple years ago. Is it bad we see some of the Sun folks protecting their investing in Solaris? I think not, some poured their lives into it, just like some of the Linux community poured theirs into their work. The name calling just doesn't help either of us. It's kind of interesting seeing a substantial percentage of Sun folks (who know the process inside of Sun BTW;-) that seem to feel we've made good progress. OTOH, I would say most of the community folks don't feel it's made very much progress at all. Perspective is relative. -- Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 Engineering - IHV/OEM Group Advocate of Insourcing at Sun, hire people that care about our company! _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
