Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > >> Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote: >> >>> To make it an attractive destination for other companies, >>> besides Sun, to donate cash/hardware. >> >> >> >> And what would we do with that? (Really - I'm coming from >> a background of the X.Org Foundation, which is having a hard >> time finding ways to spend it's cash - it's not enough to hire >> a stable of full-time developers, so has avoided paying for >> projects so it doesn't fall into the same hole as Debian and >> other projects who paid people but by doing so, had volunteers >> decide they didn't want to work on it without pay, for a net >> loss of people working on the project. Obviously Sun is >> already paying many OpenSolaris developers, so the dynamics >> here would be different.) > > > > An idea copied from elsewhere: > Book out a hotel in San Diego during January or February for a > week or two and pay for all the developers to go there for an > opensolaris conference, write/design code, drink beer and > eat pizza.
Who would pay for that little pizza party? How many people would be invited? Why San Diego and not Beijing or Bangalore or Menlo Park? And who decides? >>> Isn't anyone in the least bit interested seeing OpenSolaris >>> actually be able to employ people or pay for things itself >>> rather than depend on the good will of Sun to do it all? >> >> >> >> You really see enough people or companies donating the sum >> required to hire anyone? I can't see $100,000+ falling into >> our lap anytime soon. > > > > No, but it would be nice if www.opensolaris.org and the servers > that support it and its source code were not at Sun but in some > data center. > > Sun going bust shouldn't disrupt OpenSolaris. Whether or not > that will ever happen, who knows, but the two shouldn't be joined > at the hip. The code is not tied at all. And what happens if your foundation goes bust? Jim -- Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris
