On 07/14/10 11:22 AM, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:
I don't care about justifying oracle or redhat or microsoft or apple or
anyone else. I just care about using good stuff for whatever it's best at.
I want opensolaris to be open too. Like it used to be.
I believe we all do, that why were all upset.
But keep it in perspective. When people rant on and on, beating and beating
the dead horse, being consistently negative, and rehashing all the lack of
knowledge and spreading FUD because nobody has any actual knowledge ... It
gets in the news, and people who follow the community and have interest in
these things start thinking it's true, and newcomers hear all this going on
unchallenged, they start to think maybe opensolaris sucks or the users who
use it regret the fact that they use it. They are discouraged and
disheartened, and less likely to try using it.
What good does it do?
It wouldn't do any good if Oracle didn't fork Opensolaris. Whats that I
said , I'll say it different now, Oracle forked Opensolaris. Yep, thats
what I believe now. For years I've been humbly downloading SXCE, then
Opensolaris. Sun never stated that their creating a laptop or desktop
OS, but we all know thats where its been heading. Heck, I even thought
they were very close to surpassing Linux and have a very good chance of
having a dominant OS out there. Then Oracle took over. Now it looks
like Opensolaris is going down a different road, wait, that sounds like
a fork, huh. Suddenly any binary distro's are stopped. The new road
Oracle is taking is Server space and specific changes required to speed
up the Database product. Not bad for Oracle, bad for the community. I
believe most of the vocal Community members are like me, people who like
Opensolaris as a desktop/workstation OS. Oracle doesn't. It appears
all they want now is to convert Opensolaris into Solaris 11 and stop all
free distributions.
So now the community is rebelling and trying to get a free development
distribution going again, basically just like what we had in the past,
and for this we are beating a dead horse? It sounds to me Oracle forked
and the community is trying to steer it back to the right road again.
Paul
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