You expressed it better than I did, Jim, thanks. Jim Grisanzio a écrit : > I don't think it was a mistake, per say, but it simply represented the > strategy of the time based on the circumstances of the time (although > Solaris wasn't built around OpenSolaris; OpenSolaris has always been a > subset of the code in Solaris). > > We are talking about almost three years ago now. So many things were > different at that time. Solaris 10 hadn't even shipped during the time > we were planning OpenSolaris. Also, we've had to release the Solaris > code in pieces over time, and my understanding is that we simply > couldn't release it all at once and we couldn't offer a binary distro > based exclusively on the open code (though we would have liked to) due > the pieces we couldn't (and still can't) release (though the engineers > can correct me on that). > > And yes, we wanted to encourage the formation of distros, and some who > are saying that was a mistake now never said a word back then. In fact, > the notion of, or the hope of multiple distros, was shared by many > across the company and in marketing and engineering and in the > community. We wanted people to take the code we had released and > experiment with it. To do things we hadn't done. This is similar to the > naming of OpenSolaris. People say it was a big mistake to tie > OpenSolaris to Solaris like we did. Well, we did that intentionally, > actually, since we felt we needed to deep brand recognition of Solaris > to help OpenSolaris, and we didn't like the experience of some of the > other open source communities with separately branded projects. And > really I can't remember any of the current critics voicing concerns back > then about the name. > > Instead of saying what went before was a mistake, why can't we build on > what has gone before? Or will the decisions we are making now be > characterized as a mistake next year by someone else? I'd love for Indy > to be successful in whatever form it takes because I think we can reach > out to engage quite a large number of people in emerging markets. Some > of the work is already going on in other projects, so we have a good > opportunity to grow the project here. > > Jim
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