On 02/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Does Suse claim to publish "Linux"? > > > > > Does Ubuntu claim to publish "Linux"? > > > > > Does Redhat claim to publish "Linux"? > > > > > Does Mandriva claim to publish "Linux"? > > > > > > > > That isn't the same. Linux is a kernel; the material provided by > > > > OpenSolaris comprises a complete operating system. > > > > > > Not true: OpenSolaris is not even a complete basic OS. > > > > > > Guess why I had to work hard to create the SchilliX distribution to make > > > a bootable environment from the OpenSolaris bits? Also note that the > > > tendency to > > > replace useland tools by GNU tools let's OpenSolaris approach the Linux > > > idea > > > of only being a kernel. > > > > The distribution constructor + Indiana will prove that statement > > wrong. Jorg, this isn't two years ago, we're in a far better situation > > now than we were when you made SchilliX. For example, we have libm, > > etc. now. > > > > Folks *can* build their own distribution right now only using > > components available from OpenSolaris.org. > > Why do you try to be non-cooperative?
It isn't being non-cooperative. I'm trying to explain what I feel is the actual situation. > You create a lot of traffic in this thread but you do not help the topic > to be resolved. The problem is that Sun needs to learn to cooperate with the > community if OpenSolaris should become a success. On the contrary, I feel that many (including myself) are coming to better understand your particular viewpoint. Therefore I do believe it is helping resolution. You will not hear any disagreement from me that Sun needs to cooperate with the community. However, your definition of cooperate seems to include doing work on your behalf sometimes when it isn't necessary. > It does not help at all if Sun let's people from the non-sun community develop > ideas and then start to implement them inside Sun. This will discourage the > community and this is why e.g. John Sonnenschein seems to be angry. In your particular case, I do not believe that any idea has been stolen. In general though, is not most software simply a better iteration of someone else's ideals? > Sun needs to learn that people will stop publishing ideas if they are stolen > by > Sun. Let's not go accusing people or "entities" of things that aren't necessarily true. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
