> On the third hand,
{ third hand? really ? } :-)
Any fork with a chance of doing anything would need guys like Jeff Bonwick
and Jonathan Adams on staff. Bryan Cantrill and Mr. Schilling. Millions of
dollars would be needed. Millions.
Let me check my bank account .. just .. a sec .. here .. ah yes
nope ..
maybe I'll check again on Tuesday for that seven digit balance.
In all seriousness I started gathering up nice domain names for a new
project starting a year ago or so. Maybe longer. The idea was based on
the original tagline "Open for Business". Then I managed to schlock over
the idea "fast, safe, open, free. open for business, open for me" and so I
bought up all the opn4 domains as well as openfor.org just to be safe.
At some point a fork of some sort would happen and so I gathered resources
to be ready for that day. Now I feel that a fork can *not* be done without
instant failure right after the fanfare dies down. However there are other
things that can be done. Should be done. Like a community driven
OpenSolaris based test center. A build center where people with no
resources just simply login and play. Where a Sun Global Desktop gets
handed out for free. Also, we can take all the software from Blastwave and
drag it into a pure Solaris 10 build environment. We can build a cluster
based on the new Sun Cluster 3.2 software and then play/learn with it.
Future looking and community based ... that is what I am thinking.
But a fork of OpenSolaris.org itself? That is a whole other kettle of fish.
Dennis Clarke
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