On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 5:56 PM, Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote: > Chad Welsh wrote: >> So, when and who might be the first step/person to make this happen to >> protect what has been done so far? > > What would your fork do differently than the main project, besides have almost > no developers working on it, since all the Oracle-paid developers would still > be > working on the original OpenSolaris? Would you even have enough developers > to keep up with the overhead of merging in all the changes Oracle developers > are pushing to the main OpenSolaris gates every day?
I am definitely not known for being a Sun- YES_sayer (look into the 200[5-9] archives).. But Alan hits the nail on its very head. Yet another 100% +1! %martin > If what you really want is a new distro that's not in Oracle's control, what > would differentiate your distro from the existing ones, and why would it make > sense to start another instead of joining one of the existing groups to work > on theirs? > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- [email protected] > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System > > _______________________________________________ > indiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
