Hi andrewk9, > Comments inline:
Ditto (as they should be ;-) ) with snippages... > No software is perfect, as I think you acknowledge. I totally that it is up > to the community to engage itself in the process. I remember a piece of software 25 years ago called "The Last One". I think that its successor might have been called "The Next One" ;-) Indeed no software can be "perfect"; which always makes me nervous about the stuff running embedded code in "life-support" systems ;-) The OpenSolaris community is growing, and growing in a well-ordered manner, thanks mainly to the colossal efforts of Jim Grisanzio; who deserves great and continuing praise. Engagement will always be hit-and-miss; but if the infrastructure is there, easily accessible, and thus easy to latch on to; then the community will continue to engage and grow. > Apologies, I meant to say that, because OpenSolaris was originally derived > from Solaris, that this naturally means that it is focussed on large business > users. As you say, it is not Sun's problem if consumers don't like it. Yup. Sun must make some money from somewhere; and this will not be from OpenSolaris; it will be from large Solaris Support contracts (and stuff like training, and clever marketing campaigns). On a single-consumer level, Sun will make no dosh; but a single OpenSolaris developer writing a driver for a new piece of hardware which in the future could make its way into the official HCL, and into Solaris, could make "money" for Sun, and achieve some notable Kudos for the developer. Masayuki Muryama has achieved this to great extent, and to the great relief of many people using unsupported network hardware. > I disagree completely. For technical users the command line is probably their > tool of choice, but for non-technical users a GUI equivalent is generally > required. OK, we will have to agree to disagree on this point. But my premise was that anyone who is being paid to administer a system needs to understand the administration tasks at at least the command line level, if not lower. Obviously this does not include singleton consumers who will cry initially, then reinstall if the working environment that they "administer" ceases to work. Regards... Sean. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
