Gavin Maltby <Gavin.Maltby at Sun.COM> wrote:
> > As you see, "The OpenSolaris cummunity" was not launched by Sun, it existed
>
> There's a big leap there. The "secret six" are instrumental in convincing Sun
> that Solaris x86 should be revived; a number of suggestions to opensource
> Solaris are also made, understandably. And from that we deduce that
> the OpenSolaris community existed before Sun planned the current project?
> I'd agree that a "open(source) Solaris, please" movement existed, but
> what you state seems a stretch.
If you like to show where other people did stretch the truth already, you
usually need to strecht a bit in the other direction to clarify things.
BTW: I did try to push Sun towards OpenSource long before the Opensolaris
project was mentioned. I did this because it was obvious to me that this was
the only way to bring Sun back to universities and research users.
> > before. Many of the problems we currently see in discussins are most likely
> > caused by the fact that too few people know about this. Alan DuBoff from
> > time to
> > time mentiones it but people seem to forget about this fact. I believe that
> > most if not all problems with missunderstaning each other would disappear
> > if
> > those Sun engineers who junoed on the wagon lately would be informed about
> > what happened before OpenSolaris was first published on June 14th 2005.
>
> You know, large numbers of Sun employees have been around more than a year
> or two and were familiar with the process before day 1, attended internal
> presentations on progress, followed the internal wiki with all the info
> and minutes etc. You see many of them present and active in these
> forums today.
I did never try to hide this.
J?rg
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