On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:00:05PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > On Friday 21 April 2006 01:33 pm, Philip Brown wrote: > > Why is someone inside sun, making statement about how "desirable" something > > is, when the idea is supposed to be what sun CUSTOMERS want? I think as a > > sun employee, you are disqualified from making those kinds of statements... > > Keith is a part of the community as much as anyone else, and more so, he is > working to help resolve some of these issues. This is not about what Sun's > customer's want, other than they are a part of the community also. What Keith > proposed was spot on, IMO, and we need to work towards a unified community > that has no divisions between internal Sun folks and external community > folks. Everyone should be one and the same, working together.
If "everyone is the same", then there would be no point in having "discussions with the community", becuase sun would already know everything that everyone wants. because "everyone is the same." Clearly, sun does not know or understand everything people outside sun want, therefore, the premise is false. The whole point of having these mailing lists here on opensolaris.org, is because people inside sun are not seeing what "the community" outside sun needs and wants. Nor would they be expected to. Everyone is NOT the same. Everone will never be the same. A full-time sun employee is not, and will never be, the same as someone who works full-time outside sun. Failing to recognize that, is a fatal logical flaw. It's like falling victim to the PC (politically correct) police, and claiming "men and woman are the same!" All the political warm fuzzies and sheepleading in the world, will not change the real-life fact that they are not the same.
