Ceri Davies wrote:
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 03:01:32PM -0700, MC wrote:
Two things:
Improvement can only take place with change or supplementation. If
something does not improve, it will be replaced by superior
alternatives. Sun wants Solaris to be successful, so change (or
supplementation) must occur. If POSIX told you to hang yourself, you
wouldn't do it, right? :)
I think the major point for Ian to be be taking away from here is that
if he thought he could turn up to Sun and change the default behaviour
of Solaris because "nothing would break probably" and gee it up by
putting a bunch of exclamation points in his emails to the community
then he probably joined the wrong company. Sun has users that depend on
the default behaviour of Solaris, they're the users who've spent all
the money so far (because apparently nobody else gives Sun any money due
to csh) and breaking their stuff, or making them even question whether
their stuff is going to break, is a very bad idea indeed.
I hope that the Chief OS Platform Strategist at Sun has some better
ideas than what is basically marketecture, and marketecture that looks
like it may alienate a large proportion of the current user base at
that.
Anyway, I will try to shut up now, I think my position is reasonably
clear :)
Definitely. I don't think Ian walked in all naive and
expected to change everything.
Sure, he still has to prove himself - we all do when we
join a community - but Sun does not (in my experience)
generally appoint people to C-level positions without
those people being thoroughly researched prior to interviewing,
and those people are smart enough to do their research
as well.
I'm optimistic about Ian can and will achieve for OpenSolaris
and I don't think he's going to screw us over. From what I've
read so far, I think he is very well aware that care is needed.
cheers,
James C. McPherson
--
Solaris kernel software engineer, system admin and troubleshooter
http://www.jmcp.homeunix.com/blog
Find me on LinkedIn @ http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamescmcpherson
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