On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 2:04 PM, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > "Garrett D'Amore" <gdamore at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > > Furthermore, if Sun were to go bankrupt tomorrow, I can promise you it > > would be a devastating blow to the project -- it would probably relegate > > OpenSolaris to the same level of "relevance" as BeOS or Plan 9. (Both > > of which are interesting projects in their own right, but which have > > little or no market presence.) > > If there is not a suffucuent amount of collaboration with the community, > this cannot change. There are enough interested people. The problem is that > Sun needs to have a sufficient amount of Sun employees to deal with > collaboration ussues. > > But people never work for free.... if you collaborate with people from > outside > Sun and like to ensure that Solaris will have anough own drive after Sun may > have gone bankrupt, you have to pay with influence in decisions. > > > > > There are projects where a lot of community involvement is already > > taking place -- ksh93, crossbow, etc. Most ARC reviews these days are > > Unless otherwise proven, it seems that the ksh93 integration is a single demo > project that does not deserve being used as example.
Did you even try to contribute code? Where is the star integration project after one year? Bruno
