2009/7/22 Lennart Poettering <mzta...@0pointer.de>: > On Wed, 22.07.09 13:40, Jason D. Clinton (m...@jasonclinton.com) wrote: > >> > However, for people who make their living developing GNOME software, IMHO >> > it behooves them as professional open source software engineers to respect >> > the requirements of the other people who will be using the code they write, >> > insofar as those requirements are known up front. And right now, every >> > professional GNOME developer knows up front that GNOME isn't confined to >> > running on Linux, so that should figure fairly strongly into their design >> > work. >> >> I am extremely grateful for all that Sun has done to move GNOME forward over >> the years--indeed much of that has benefited everyone including Linux. But, >> pardon me for pointing out the pink elephant in the room: why doesn't Sun >> just admit that (Open)Solaris is a dead-end? >> >> I mean, we all understood that Solaris was proprietary until recently. But >> now that Sun has admitted that wasn't going to work, why not just go the >> next logical step? ZFS is nice and all but you *do* hold the copyright. If >> the right managerial decision were to be made--say tomorrow--we wouldn't be >> having this conversation and Sun wouldn't even be out any business. > > Please don't turn this in pointless and off-topic flamewar about the > point or pointlessness of Solaris.
+1 for Lennart here, you don't even know what you are talking about and the comment is not helping to solve any problem. > Lennart > > -- > Lennart Poettering Red Hat, Inc. > lennart [at] poettering [dot] net > http://0pointer.net/lennart/ GnuPG 0x1A015CC4 > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > -- Un saludo, Alberto Ruiz _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
