>On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 01:58 -0700, UNIX admin wrote: >> > Open Solaris developers have to do a lot of complex >> > work in order to give the user a compuer that is >> > plain, easy and utterly simple. >> >> And what about users rolling up their sleeves and helping out? >> Or is everything just to be delivered on a silver platter? > >Unless you're been living under a rock or in some cave for the last 30 >years - software is a service industry; I don't have skills so I pay >*YOU* to create software to allow *ME* to do the work I need to do with >the least amount of effort required.
>I remember, a customer is not a computer expert, they shouldn't need to >be a computer or a Solaris expert to get Solaris up and running on their >machine. But I'm not at all sure that OpenSolaris.org is the appropriate venue for this; you can pester Sun for new features. An important part of OpenSolaris is actually helping out and improving things in Solaris. The people at Sun are paid to work on Solaris and told by their management what to work on, after consideration of customer feedback and marketplace pressures. People at OpenSolaris are likely to want to work on thing they need, want or just want to make. They're less likely to make something purely because someone else wants it. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
