S Destika wrote: >>Sun is part of the community; so it would be a >>conflict within >>the community in the first place; not one between the >>community >>and Sun. >> >> > >You keep stating Sun is part of community but that is completely wrong and >more importantly totally unwarranted and detrimental to an Open Source project >for the reasons I explained already. > >
So you would say the IBM and Red Hat aren't part of the Linux community? Probably every large open source project has at least one corporation supplying developers. A big project simply cannot survive on the efforts of volunteers, unless they have independent means. > > >>The only plausible scenarion, then, is one where Sun >>wants to prevent >>the community from doing a particular thing. But the >>development process >>does not appear to allow that. >> >> > >Explain this - how? > > Nextra? >>It's a very simple concept but I don't see where the >>conflict lies. >>And no, I don't think the OpenSolaris community, Sun >>and their >>customers are separate; they are one community. You >>continuously >>want to contrast "the community" with "Sun". >> >> >Wow that's an incredibly flawed statement. You mix three separate entities >with separate primary interests, beliefs, resources, preferences, needs and >risks and make them one community. Too much contradiction for further dialogue. > > > Don't we all have the same goal, the best OS for our needs? I'm still waiting for the details of the 8 boxes you claim not to be able to install Open Solaris on. Ian _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
