> this time you are going too far to the opposite end (not every of
> > their PR-statements might turn out to be the truth).
>
> Of course. This is called "marketing". :-)
>
This is called "bad marketing". Once you promise something you have tofulfill
it, otherwise nobody would trust you if you again promise something.
> > Did you notice? Their first move after the takeover was to lay-off Sun
> > open-source officer Simon Phipps. Can you explain this with your
> > logics from above? How would you?
>
> 1. They have worked on the takover for almost a year.
> 2. It is not clear whether he was laid off or decided to quit. And
> I certainly wouldn't know.
>
> > Another thing which makes me really wonder is all the silence that
> > (does not) go(es) out from the newly elected OGB. And they don´t need
> > to be afraid of losing their jobs, because almost all of them either
> > never had a Sun position, or quit Sun long ago. Why this silence from
> > *them*??
>
> Hmmm... I have seen a number of OGB members post in the various lists.
> What do you want them to do? Post "yes, there will be 2010.03" every
> day?
>
I'm speaking with Jim very frequently and he even doesn't have enough fundsto
send me few OpenSolaris Bibles so we could have one in each branch andfor our
"Honored" members.
> > Back to the OpenSolaris 2010.03 delay: If really just a technical
> > stopper is the reason for the delay, then it could be a thing as
> > simple as converting all vendor and license strings from Sun to
> > Oracle. On caiman this was webref´ed last week. Plus getting a fancy
> > Oracle backdrop in red, plus a new Grub- and bootup- screen etc, plus
> > the opensolaris.com website ... etc.
>
> Hmmm... I am glad I can change the backdrop. :-)
>
> > The question is IF. And WHY all the silence and secrecy??
>
> Because they have other things to do?
At least ORACLE could publish one Community-oriented statement tellingeveryone
what is going on, and what will happen in near future. It'd consumenot more
than one hour writing such statement.
>
>
> Regards -- Volker
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