Martin Bochnig wrote:
> I am the initiator of what now has become "Project FOX">
> I have "ported" Xorg's bus scanning and (former) Linux-only drivers to
> Solaris_sparc.
>
> And yet I only come in 3rd place???
I didn't see anyone listing people in order of the value of their
contributions.
> However, apparently it is not worth doing anything difficult at lower level.
> The credits and all the praise will always go towards what is mainstream,
> whether much or difficult work had been involved, or not.
Welcome to the desktop world of a OS most people associate with servers,
credit will be few and far between, and as with all open source projects,
the people happily and gratefully using your work will be mostly silent,
and those with problems will be the loudest voices.
> Thank you so much, I hereby leave the FOX thing, because my work, effort and
> investment is not being recognized.
It's been recognized time and time again. You weren't left out of Glynn's
blog, or listed as someone doing less work, just as one of several people
doing work needed to make Indiana a reality.
> #0) I told you many things you did not remember. Why do you exactly remember
> this single of all my statements? Because it is the most convenient to think
> of??? Why don't you remember, for example, that I had told you immediately
> afterwards (back then), that it had been a statement motivated by desperate
> dark sarcasm??
I don't know - the human memory is strange. Perhaps it stuck out
because it was such a unusual thing to say.
> #1) Did you *ever* offer me a (paid) whatever mini-job?
> #2) Did you *ever* offer me one Cent?
Did you think I *ever* controlled even one cent of Sun's budget?
I can't even have Sun mail you a T-shirt without getting management
approval. Certainly I have no influence over our employment levels,
or they wouldn't have cut the X engineering team headcount twice in
the past two years. (Your name was mentioned as a possibility to
replace one of our engineers who left last year, but then we found
out we were not getting any replacement, so it went no farther.)
Perhaps you've missed the news that Sun is again in the middle of
layoffs - several hundred people got notice last week that their
jobs were eliminated - there simply isn't a lot of opportunity for
hiring new people right now.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
