John Plocher <john.ploc...@gmail.com> wrote: > Contrary to your blog'd assertions, the OGB isn't committing ritual > suicide - it, and the community it was formed to lead are already > dead. It happened when nobody was looking, sometime in the last 15 to > 36 months. OpenSolaris's executive supporters within Sun came down
In early 2008 it has become obvious already that Sun was not going to let the announcements for OpenSolarit from September 2004 become reality. http://roy.gbiv.com/untangled/2008/watching-the-ripples We others at that time did believe that Sun will just need a bit longer. When I tried to remind Snorcle on the announcements from September 2004 a few months ago, I have been told that nobody is still there who knows about the goals in 2004. We need to face it that this obviously was a move planned since a longer time. Now let us check whether this means that OpenSolaris is really dead now: OpenSolaris is not dead, Oracle just announced that Oracle will no longer contribute to OpenSolaris the way people expect in a OSS project. Now let us check whether this means that the OpenSolaris Community is really dead now: Can Oracle kill the Community? I don't see that this is possible. The community exists before Sun did create OpenSolaris and it does not depend on Oracle. The Community needs to self organize and it may be that the Community needs to find other technical resources. This is a challenge for the community and it may wedge off those who only have been interested in a free supply from Sun... Jörg -- EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ ogb-discuss mailing list ogb-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss
