James Mansion wrote: >>complete with some suggestions for the future and what I think >>it will take for it to really succeed - mostly time. >> >> > >Darren, > >You suggest that it is a 'problem' that contributing to Open Solaris is >a contribution to Sun. As a user, that is precisely one of Open >Solaris' strengths. And if that means that the sort of person who has >a problem with that doesn't contribute, then I'm personally overjoyed. >Good riddance. Let them work in their communes. When they grow up and >get lives (and significant others, and kids, and all those things that >make adults' time precious) and careers that depend on technology >they'll start to understand. > > > It's precisely when this happens that contributing to an opensource project becomes a problem. There are only 24 hours in a day, some of these spend earning a crust, some more looking after kids and the remainder relaxing and sleeping. In my case it's a pretty much even split, so there isn't any time left at the end of the day to make a significant contribution.
For a major opensource project to succeed in a rapidly changing and competitive space, independent developers either have to have independent means, or be paid by someone to work on the project. Mr Sad. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
