> From: [email protected] [mailto:opensolaris- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Fabio Kaminski > > and support community distros like > nexenta, belenix or schillix... > > if none of these open source projects could launch and getting more > visibility, the developer community will continue to disperse.. > and the users with it..
The only trouble is - The bulk of sol/osol kernel and ZFS etc development work is done by oracle paid employees. If you "jump ship" to a community OS, aren't you leaving behind all the contributions that are made by the paid employees? It depends on whether you want control over the source code, to write and release your own developments because you don't like the developments they're making. But given they are corporate sponsored with a team of employees ... you're not going to be able to develop an alternative branch faster than they develop the mainstream ZFS etc, and you'll be left in the dust. If you can assemble a volunteer effort, which pulls sources and stuff from ZFS etc open source repositories, sufficient to build the volunteer community OS just based on open source packages, I say great. Awesome. Do it. It'll absolutely satisfy a demand for free users who don't want to feel "kept in the blind" by the corporation. But you're still dependent on the development efforts that are taking place in all those open source packages, corporate sponsored and tight-lipped. Of course, the paying customers will want the "official" product that's distributed and supported by the people who wrote it. Very few people are going to pay for Centos because if they're going to pay anything at all, they would pay for RHEL. The whole point of Centos is to be a free alternative of RHEL, that's pretty much just like RHEL. Build the Centos of solaris/opensolaris. Pull all the sources from oracle and the Internet, and build them, and distribute a fully-open OS. I say, great. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
