Hello Dennis, Thursday, April 13, 2006, 8:59:15 PM, you wrote:
>> Dennis Clarke wrote: >>> If Sun Microsystems Inc. would like to begin from scratch with a >>> complete new project then there is little that can be done right? >> >> Sun has been producing the companion CD for longer than blastwave has >> been around. It was blastwave that began a complete new project from >> scratch when both sunfreeware and the Sun Companion CD already existed, >> and clearly it was right to not stop blastwave from doing so. DC> (1) Neither of those projects were OPEN to anyone other than a Sun DC> badge and Steve C. Well, I guess that finally Blastwace provides all the sources, patches and build scripts/options it uses to provide its packages - if it's so now then this is great, but it wasn't the case in the past (not so distant past) so Blastwave wasn't that open either. DC> (2) Solaris Community people banded together to remedy (1) . DC> Also, and this is subtle, no one was in a position to stop Blastwave DC> from existing and thriving. In fact, great piles of help were poured DC> in by Sun people and for obvious reasons. So now we have Sun Inc. DC> wanted to begin some open discussions on how best to proceed with a DC> community software project that is finally open. DC> Feel free to join the mail lists at : DC> https://lists.blastwave.org/mailman/listinfo This discussion isn't about Blastwave only - I want to be part of that discussion and I don't want to join another mailing list related with a specific project like Blastwave to just talk about open source software for open solaris - here is a proper place to do it, not Blastwave. -- Best regards, Robert mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://milek.blogspot.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
