> Slide 22 is also very interesting and gives me a lot > of reassurance: > > OpenSolaris > • Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available > as open source and > Oracle will continue to actively support and > participate in the > OpenSolaris community > • Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did > prior to the > acquisition, and will continue to contribute > innovative technologies to > OpenSolaris, as Oracle already does for many other > open source projects > > Coming from Oracle there's no longer any doubt that > it will be alright. > I'm going to be an OpenSolairs user for quite some > time to come. ;-)
While that presentation was indeed reassuring, from the reactions I've seen so far, many seem to hope that "participate in the OpenSolaris community" would include less restrictive communication than it appears is allowed by the current application of their policies to OpenSolaris. I see open source plus community meaning, when it wouldn't compromise competitive information about a pending product, that the development process and activity is also open, to include some information about _planned_ components thereof, as well. One of the many reasons for more open communication is that outside contributors should be entitled to a little courtesy when their work is affected (look at ksh93-discuss to see a case of that). As an example: the FishWorks storage server/software. Most of the pieces (zfs and enhancements, cifs server software, DTrace, Java, etc) were already in place, and in plain sight. Most of the development of those pieces was also for the most part in plain sight. Additional software, plus the combination of those to a particular purpose (with supporting documentation) was what made it a distinct product. To me, that says that most info pertaining to general OS features, even including _approximate (60 to 90 days, say) estimates of availability, need not reveal a specific product in the works. Thus, I think it would be great if project leads for ongoing open projects had some more latitude than they may presently feel they have to speak about their project's ongoing development, but _not_ about its relationship to other projects where that might have a bearing on any pending product. Community...communication. See the relationship? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
