Stephen Harpster writes: > > No, they won't. According to 'whois', it looks like > > "reallyopensolaris.org" hasn't been registered yet, and would be an > > excellent place to set up a rival community. > > > OpenSolaris is a Sun trademark, so don't count on it. ;-)
Fine. "openos.org" is also available, and easier to type. > > Those who are willing to consent to dual-licensing today with the > > possibility of additional licenses to be named in the future might go > > to opensolaris.org. The rest would go to the other site, and use GPL > > alone. > > > No they won't. Where will innovation occur? That's what people really > care about. Who will work on reallyopensolaris.org and who will work on > opensolaris.org? Most of the developers, for good or bad, are employed > by Sun and will continue to develop on opensolaris.org. The rest of the > world can pull from reallyopensolaris.org, but that code base will get > old and crusty pretty fast. I think we're coming down the the crux of the matter here. I agree that if we think like customers and end users of Solaris then, yes, it's innovation and branding and patch delivery and support that matter. However, if we think like contributors to an open source project, what matters is the openness and speed of the process, the transparency of the licensing, the ability to contribute *directly* to the code, ownership of the results, and an equal footing for those involved. Assuming that growing the opensolaris.org community is the intended purpose, adding a new license to the mix does not in fact advance any of those issues. It makes a rival community that _does_ address those issues possible, while it actually adds complexity and risk to our existing community. That still seems like a net loss, as I'm rather convinced that the fork will in fact happen, whether we think it's feasible or not. (For what it's worth, and it may not be much, I believe the very same issues affected the Zebra/Quagga split. Integration into Zebra was considered by quite a few to be difficult, and the folks who started the project apparently felt they held the important cards. Now it seems that's not quite the case.) No matter how much I think of sun.com, and it's quite a bit, I'm not so willing to bet that the only smart, talented, capable people available are already here. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sun Microsystems / 1 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677 _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
