On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 03:19:48PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > I don't get it Phil. One side of you keeps pointing out how closed we are, > and > how we don't want to work with the outside and will ever do that. When Sun > actually decides to be open and want to work with the community on the same > level, you immediately jump back and claim foul as if thier intention is to > trick you.
No, I'm being picky about how you are describing things. "working with the community" is recognizing that there are two separate entities: "Sun", and "The community of users outside Sun". "working with the community" does not require relabeling the definition of "the community" as also including sun employees. Sun by definition (hopefully!) already works with its own employees. The priority problems here, are figuring out how sun needs to meet the needs of people OUTSIDE sun. Redefining "the community" as including people inside sun, and then having people inside sun hijack the process of finding out what people OUTSIDE SUN want, is counterproductive Let's keep our "communities" clear here.
