John Plocher wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Garrett D'Amore <gdamore at sun.com> wrote: >> Again, I can't talk about the rationale for the bits that are closed being >> so. > > > It is pretty clear that the reason it is closed is because Oracle > feels the features, internal build coordination and configuration of > their own distro (OpenSolaris 2010.03 ...) are none of the community's > damn business.
You can get upset, but neither Neal nor Garrett actually know if the above is accurate. It might be only a reasonable guess that many commercial enterprises would keep internal details, well, internal. But I don't know that Oracle would ever use the above language w.r.t. community. > > Fine - I can live with the refreshingly honest view that the > OpenSolaris distro is Oracle's proprietary distro built on top of the > community's effort. The implication of this behavior, though, is that > any "Oracle distro specific" changes, policies and customization must > remain part of Oracle's internal source trees and NOT be pushed back > out to pollute the community's repos. If it ain't the community's > business now, the community really doesn't want the results shoved > down their throats. > > This is no different in concept from EON, Nexenta, Belenix, OSUnix, > Shillix, Milax (etc...) having to keep *their* distro-specific bits > out of ON and the other OpenSolaris community repos. Consider it > OpenSource Hygiene - proprietary behaviors (and their results) are not > welcome here. If "welcome here" is PSARC (the alias you are on right now), then yes, proprietary or open behaviors are indeed both worked upon by PSARC, both in open and closed cases. PSARC is an internal Oracle process, that for some cases, is open. Please don't get upset with Garrett, as he must attend to both open and closed business as an employee. Neither Garrett or Neal or you set Oracle policy. Neal > > -John
