On Apr 16, 2010, at 11:19 PM, I. Szczesniak wrote:

> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 7:10 PM, Henrik Johansson <[email protected]> wrote:
>> What are you going to do with the fork? Solaris is dependent on the briliant
>> engineers from what was Sun, no external coders have stepped upp and
>> supplied many new features, mainly fixes only.
> 
> I see this as slap into the face of those who contributed code.
> 

I have no intention of slapping anyone, I well aware of the external 
contributors and projects and think they have done and are doing a fantastic 
job. I should have written few external coders instead, I'm sorry if I offended 
anyone. I use ksh93 as my default shell for myself. 

I just don't think there are enough  kernel engineers outside Oracle that can 
pick up on fixing and improving ZFS, building VM 2.0 etc. Most of the code that 
is put into OpenSolaris today is from people payed by Oracle, I don't think a 
branch with ether of Oracle employees or external contributors exclusively will 
do OpenSolaris any good. Do you think there are willing people and knowledge 
enough outside of Oracle to continue differentiate OpenSolaris?

As I said in my previous mail, I'll wait a bit longer.

Regards

Henrik
http://sparcv9.blogspot.com

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