>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.
I have not seen you explain that in anyway that I would accept. Why are Sun developers not part of the OpenSolaris developer community? Or is the community open to individuals working at Sun but not the company? Then, read "Individuals at Sun doing their day jobs" for "Sun". >> 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? The development process sets out rules; and if you abide by those rules there is nothing that can prevent you from committing code. Inside Sun this is different; you'll need to make a business case to work on something; the community does not need to do so. >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. Perhaps I don't understand the word community as you understand it; but to believe that a community exists of only like minded people is flawed. If the OpenSolaris community not also exists of Sun customers, Sun, people working at Sun, then who are all those people and what do they want from OpenSolaris? I live in a community in which is perhaps not very divers, but it contains lawyers, real estate agent, brokers, actors, photographers, people who own their homes, people who rent, single parent families, single persons, unemployed, employed, self-employed. These are all people in a single community but with vastly different means and different interests. But I've glad we've figured out one thing: you and I have completely different understanding of what a community is and particularly what the OpenSolaris community is comprised of. I see it as all-inclusive, all encompassing; free for all OpenSolaris kindred spirits. But you, you seem to want to specifically exclude Sun, Sun customers (Sun employees?) and perhaps others from this community. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
