UNIX admin wrote:
Well, I think Harpster is being clear that one
possible advantage of a
dual approach would be to engage more developers.
That's a valid
viewpoint. Other views have been expressed as well.
The OpenSolaris
community is having a conversation about licensing.
How is that marketing?
Discussion isn't marketing (maybe), but GPLing Solaris to in order to *try* and
win more developers over from the Linux camp would be an attempt at marketing.
Because that's the idea with GPLing Solaris, isn't it?
I think our marketing should focus on OpenSolaris to
help build the
OpenSolaris community. That's it. No need to show any
other community we
are better than they are.
I agree with you on this.
We're not better, by the
way. We're just
different.
Here I strongly disagree. Perhaps I'm not better, but we most certainly have
people in our community that are absolute geniuses, that know UNIX inside and
out and know it good, and that have the deep insights and the expertise to be
able to produce a superior product. We have the kind of ingenuity and expertise
that the GNU/Linux community at large can only dream of.
>
The problem is, there are not very many such people. We are a comparatively
small community.
Yes we are, which is why a touch of humility would be nice if we want to
focus on building our own community and not get distracted by
competitive battles and comparisons that may not make sense. We have a
great deal to do as many have pointed out. It's interesting, I've had
the opportunity to go to a few conferences lately and this issue rarely
comes up, yet interest in OpenSolaris remains high. In other words, we
don't need the competitive stuff to build community.
Jim
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