On 4/13/06, Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also, I'm someone upset at the exlusivity you appear to claim > > for blastwave; open source is about sharing, but it's also about > > being allowed to do your own thing. > > > > "exlusivity" ? > > I give up. I really do.
So have I :-( > Once upon a time I thought it would be a really great idea to build > a project that allows people to login and play. To build software > and "do things". Twice over the past two years I have made attempts at joining the Blastwave maintainer community, only to ultimately be rejected because I do not have a "work email address" (I am a student (older student, far from a freshman)). This was explained to me by Phil Brown as being for legal reasons, as employers are more responsible for the actions of their employees than educational institutions are. Fair enough, this makes some sense to me, especially considering the setting of many Solaris installations. In that regard, there is /some/ exclusivity at Blastwave. This rather put me off, since one of the projects has accepted patches by me in the past which provides Solaris support (Licq), and another one of the projects now lists packages created by me on their homepage (gtkpod). The latter even has CSW dependencies, and was created using modified cswutils scripts. This post is a bit offtopic, I admit, but "exclusivity" activated something in my brain like a keyword. I am a happy Blastwave user who has been following most of this discussion. -- Eric Enright _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
