[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Alan Coopersmith wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
To make it an attractive destination for other companies,
besides Sun, to donate cash/hardware.
And what would we do with that? (Really - I'm coming from
a background of the X.Org Foundation, which is having a hard
time finding ways to spend it's cash - it's not enough to hire
a stable of full-time developers, so has avoided paying for
projects so it doesn't fall into the same hole as Debian and
other projects who paid people but by doing so, had volunteers
decide they didn't want to work on it without pay, for a net
loss of people working on the project. Obviously Sun is
already paying many OpenSolaris developers, so the dynamics
here would be different.)
An idea copied from elsewhere:
Book out a hotel in San Diego during January or February for a
week or two and pay for all the developers to go there for an
opensolaris conference, write/design code, drink beer and
eat pizza.
Who would pay for that little pizza party? How many people would be
invited? Why San Diego and not Beijing or Bangalore or Menlo Park? And
who decides?
Isn't anyone in the least bit interested seeing OpenSolaris
actually be able to employ people or pay for things itself
rather than depend on the good will of Sun to do it all?
You really see enough people or companies donating the sum
required to hire anyone? I can't see $100,000+ falling into
our lap anytime soon.
No, but it would be nice if www.opensolaris.org and the servers
that support it and its source code were not at Sun but in some
data center.
Sun going bust shouldn't disrupt OpenSolaris. Whether or not
that will ever happen, who knows, but the two shouldn't be joined
at the hip.
The code is not tied at all. And what happens if your foundation goes bust?
Jim
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Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
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