[trimmed off os-discuss, probably should also trim off ogb-discuss]
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> It is just another chance to verify that there is collaboration on OpenSolaris
> and not just ignorant domination from Sun.....
>
> Do we have an OpenSolaris community or is this just a fake?
>
> The real compare is 20 years older and I did _warn_ _before_ the name appeared
> in /usr/bin. For this reason, this is an important bug in Solaris Express.
Where is the ARC case that proposed that OpenSolaris adopt your compare?
When did you integrate your "compare" into the source tree(s) maintained on
OpenSolaris.org? Have you taken your (fantastic!) work on Schillix and
made it part of what we are doing here in OS.o-land? Have you figured out
how to get others to follow your lead?
From my perspective, you (still) have an independent distro that harvested
the work done here on OS.o and added your own infrastructure, tools and
missing parts - and didn't manage to get the work done to merge those
changes and additions back into any OS.o code base(s).
One of the threads in the trademark discussion revolved around the
assertion that OpenSolaris *is* the source code found in the consolidations
and repositories hosted on OS.o. In a very real sense, if your source
isn't here, your project/product isn't part of OpenSolaris.
Because you have not (yet?) managed to do this, your distro is slowly
diverging from the ongoing work being done on OS.o; worse, the rest of OS.o
has been forced to reinvent much of your work just to get a stand-alone,
self-hosted distro off the ground.
One of the joys of doing your own distro is that you don't need to interact
with anyone else before you do your own thing; one of the downsides is that,
because you are independent, other people don't do things your way. You
can't really have it both ways.
-John
