Rich Teer wrote: > On Tue, 2 Dec 2008, Shawn Walker wrote: >> The only way to grow the community is to focus on people not already using >> Solaris/OpenSolaris. > > At the risk of disenfranchising the current community? Great, so we annoy
Change inherently carries risk. But I personally believe the reward to be greater than the risk. > current users just to appease new users who might very well say I'm going > back to Linux because Solaris isn't GPL? I personally don't believe those users are part of the target audience. I think it's been very clear that developers are the primary target, and most developers develop on other platforms and port to Solaris/OpenSolaris. >> From a usability perspective, the current defaults are problematic at best in >> my view. > > A view to which you're entitled, but I disagree with. > > What's wrong with keeping the defaults that current Solaris users expect, > and supplying a document to help those migrating from other platforms? Existing users that prefer the older configuration as you suggest don't have a learning curve, and thus are the best suited to reconfiguring a system to work how they want it to work. As such, changing the defaults to fit the new users who have a steep learning curve coming to a new platform, is the best way to ease their transition. -- Shawn Walker
