Where is the email threads to substantiate your claims?
-Ghee
On 10/05/2010 11:50, Dave Johnson wrote:
This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene?
David
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From: Dave Johnson<[email protected]>
Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2010.03, when will it be
available?
To: "Richard L. Hamilton"<[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected], [email protected]
On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Richard L. Hamilton<[email protected]> wrote:
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).
Oracle doesn't want the command modernisation and ksh93 projects. They
had too much community influence in the past, are too independent and
Oracle wants to replace the Solaris commands in usr/bin with GNU
commands. Oracle has already decided that in February and now try to
get rid of the projects by denying them repository access.
The projects are dead. There is enough evidence what Oracle is planning.
Dave
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