Мартин Бохниг (Martin Bochnig) wrote:
Solaris code for marketing purposes, rather than creating an
independent, community-led, open source project with the ability to
make real decisions.
I think you're missing the point. What is the benefit to Sun
shareholders to have Solaris so open, really? Simple question - where
does the money come from?
And yes - they could have engaged and formed more of a community.
Quite true. But I don't accept that its necessarily relevant, unless
you really think that Sun would fire 90% of its engineers and expect
most of the development to come from the community and run lean and mean
as a distro creator like Red Hat, with a few high profile engineers to
show they have commitment and at least some core skills.
Whether or not OpenSolaris has a community or not is all but irrelevant
so far as I can see because either way its not a revenue generator, and
what Sun needed was revenue.
James
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