Al Hopper wrote:
On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Stephen Harpster wrote:
Who maintains the code on that CVS server? If there's a bug in virtual
memory, who fixes it? The experts are here in Sun, and they will
continue to work on opensolaris.org. OpenSolaris is too large and
That's a dangereous assertion. What it Jeff Bezos[1] decided to spend
more than the (??) $480m he spent last year on software development and
made some people at Sun an offer they could not refuse. Or decided to put
half of his software development $s into creating a Ubuntu like
OpenSolaris alternative. Then there is Google with enough budget to put
3,000 people to work on any project they wish to...
Who was it that said (something like) no one company can have all the
technical talent (on staff).
I would love it. It would mean that OpenSolaris is successful. And the
publicity of Sun saying "Amazon and Google have validated the
superiority of OpenSolaris over Linux" would be HUGE!
Not true. In a race you're either leading or following. It's only
wishful thinking to suggest that Sun will always be the leader (altough
I'd _like to_ think it would).
It's quite unlikely that any one company other than Sun will lead
OpenSolaris. Even if they did, we have the above case and I'm still happy.
More likely, there will evolve non-Sun leaders of individual projects.
This is what we're actually *trying* to create, so I'm still happy.
--
Stephen Harpster
Director, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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