On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 11:04 -0700, Daniel Johnsen wrote: > a week ago I read, that the development resources for the Java Desktop System > will be decreased,
All Sun has said is that we'll be focusing more on Solaris and less on Linux... just like we did when we first joined the GNOME Foundation back in 2000. IMHO, the period between then and Sun's release of GNOME 2.0 on Solaris represented one of our most productive periods of involvement with the opsn source desktop community... but since the Linux versions of the stuff we picked up for JDS 'just worked' to a large extent, we had less need to get involved with them, and spent more time on branding and other Sun-specific stuff instead. And since we had throttled back on the Solaris version at that point, we were more inclined to drop the stuff that didn't 'just work' on Solaris, rather than work with the community to get it fixed. All the signs I'm seeing so far are that this shift of focus is motivating a lot of folks within Sun to start reaching out to the community again, and that can only be a good thing, IMHO. (It's also worth remembering that we still released two pretty decent versions of JDS for Solaris while we were concentrating more on Linux, so it's not entirely inconceivable that we could do the same for Linux now that the boot's on the other foot... both versions have always been built from the self same source code, and I can't imagine we'd want that to change.) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
