>> Unless everyone stopped contributing to the OpenSolaris project and >> rehosted themselves over to the fork, the fork maintainers will be >> forced to either ignore the OpenSolaris changes, or spend more and >> more time resyncing their fork - neither of which is long-term >> feasible. Sure, some would use this fork, and would be happy. >> Good for them. Sure, this splits the community a bit, but not >> fatally for OpenSolaris. > > Let me lay out a scenario that I just elucidated on Stephen O'Grady's > blog (http://redmonk.com/sogrady/): let's say that several years down the > track, a major competitor to Sun in the server space decides that, much to > their regret, OpenSolaris is an option that they must not just provide, but > also extend and develop. But the competitor doesn't want to outsource its > OS development to Sun -- they just want to hijack OpenSolaris.
< snip > I follow this with a slightly more dramatic bit of prose at Stephen O'Grady's blog also ( http://redmonk.com/sogrady/ ) : Economics, commerce and greed will always destroy superior technology and intelligence. To think that an economic shift could not destroy the OpenSolaris community is childlike naiveté. Digital was swallowed whole by Compaq. HP swallowed Compaq. The DEC Alpha was a vastly superior processor at the time and it has been simply vanished from commercial existence. SGI barely has a pulse anymore. The OS/2 operating system was superior to Window 3.1 and perhaps even Windows NT. Solaris is superior to Linux in many ways. None of these fine technology examples will save OpenSolaris from an economic shift. Certainly not when an open invitation to destruction is stamped on every file. This is the CDDL : http://www.opensolaris.org/os/licensing/opensolaris_license/ It is neither trivial nor without strength. It took work and thought and careful consideration. The CDDL is our license and I see no fault with it. If we as a *community* feel a need to revise it then we can discuss those perceived needs. Dennis Clarke _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
