Agreed, the Nazi-link is a tad crazy. What we should rather do, is improving Solaris; the stronger it is, the worse to take the company over.
[i]Mr. Carlson, in case you didn't know, WE are the people and the community does have the means to influence Executive's decisions.[/i] makes me laugh, though. I have been an also-Solaris fan for the last decade. And we had to make with supporting x86, with Sparc still as core (Solaris 8, anyone?), Dropping that support, re-instating that support, sidelining Sparc. We had to see countless opportunities passing by with Java not being redistributable, we have heard of opensourcing, GPLv2, we have had the opposite, finally we ended with a beautiful and partially incompatible cuddly license, and no GPL. Then we had a community (here) being set up by largely full-time and paid employees. A community largely void of outsiders, and without any say. And now those employees talk about 'fork'. During their working hours at whatever the company is? If one wanted to combat any takeover, firstly the product has to improve (I leave out the long list of grouses on basic functionality, for the time being.). Then, with the type of managers this company had to make with through the last decade, there is no future. Because there is no resolve, no vision, and mostly backtracking and reversals. Compare with Apple: A complete change of OS from MacOS to Darwin/FreeBSD several years ago, and another one from PPC to x86, have both strengthened the company, despite of the courage and risks involved. Jonathan seems to have done more damage than good. Sun can exist and survive, but needs a change of guard. Uwe -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
