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.
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>

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? 
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>

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.
> 
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>
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

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