+1 So we no longer do. The obvious solution to the new order. I know for certain that this has cost Oracle projects in the millions. Larry could care less, however, as long as Oracle can continue pulling in projects worth tens/hundreds of millions. Oracle's the new law in town. Cowboy up and get over it. At least until Safra's connections in the oriental banking industry become exhausted.
Imho what's needed, as previously alluded to elsewhere, is an "emancipated community reference release" that embraces commonly accepted best practice open source engineering and release processes, e.g. the *BSD's release, stable, and current, and turn OpenSolaris into a REAL open source project. Why doesn't this happen? In large part because some with more commercial than altruistic motivations fear loosing both Oracle's blessing and funding support. Ironically, IF an emancipated OpenSolaris that became legitimate open source project very likely WOULD attract the attention of other commercial supporters, e.g. along lines of apache foundation, X.org, Gnome, etc. The Linux model is NOT correct for this - as it will only serve to have many fragmented "distro's", sporting Linux's same level of bugginess and brokenness. Speaking of ironic, I think this is precisely what Oracle hopes for. What's needed instead is an emancipated community driven reference implementation. Other efforts such as Milax, Nexenta, Belenix, etc. may also have their place but there should be "one ring to bind them all" to standard reference. Much like Apache Tomcat is the reference servlet container. Or maybe not. But one thing for sure is that if OS is to survive as community driven open source project, then emancipation from Snorkel is job #1. The proof having been in the pudding for months now. Hanging around out of personal interest though, as I still have 2009.06 running on my workstation. But that's it. My $0.02, offered in the vein of constructive criticism. Nothing but respect for the Sun dev heads that have brought OpenSolaris this far. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
