> FYI: > > http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/161333 > > -- > Alan Burlison
Good to see some clarity on one of the areas that earlier seemed murky. More of the same, regarding OpenSolaris (the distro) would be helpful. The alleged removal of the servers for the postgres folks' build farm bothers me though. I can understand if one doesn't want to support a competitor, but if it happened as described, it was at least very discourteous to do it without a few weeks advance notice. Sun built up considerable credibility with open-source folks: by participating in X11 and GNOME, by long being open about standards and protocols they developed, by open-sourcing OpenOffice, OpenSolaris, and (addressing something that had long bothered some of the more militant) open-sourcing Java. While they were still criticized for too often not involving the community early in new feature development, they were also recognized as the largest contributor to open-source by far. Oracle has rather quickly degraded much of that credibility. That is not irreversible, and it does not require giving up income. First and foremost, it _does_ require more communication and candor as to direction. I'd like to think I'm not being alarmist. I think most of this will sort itself out in time, although it's already taken longer than I'd like, and from what I've seen here, I'm not the least patient among us. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
