On Wednesday 19 April 2006 12:31 pm, Philip Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 18, 2006 at 06:10:31PM -0700, Alan DuBoff wrote: > > Sun has staff now to handle most of what they do, but this doesn't > > allow Sun to work with the community. > > btw: there's a difference between "working with the community", and > "meeting the needs of the community".
??? Maybe you elaborate on this? Sun wants to work with the community in the sense that the sources would be the same, in the long term. At least as far as I know they do. So, are you trying to imply that Sun is only trying to meet the needs of the community? > you dont have to do #1 (in the sense of, "community members get write > access"), to fulfil #2. Why would Sun give you write access to their distribution? The only difference today is that community members need to have a sponsor to get the code liasoned into Solaris. This doesn't mean that's the model Sun wants to follow, so what's your point? > opensolaris.org is, as far as I understand it, using the first model. > You seem to be pushing for the second model, for this common freeware > base. Again, I don't follow why. I would like to meet the needs of Solaris/OpenSolaris, and do what is right for it in the long run. There are various parties with interest in having their software run on Solaris, blastwave being one. > I believe that the first model is best both for opensolaris.org "solaris" > code, and also for any affiliated sun-blessed common set of freeware. > But my point being, that would require dedicated sun employees for the > task... which sun seems to be moving away from. So, I don't understand your point. Sun has quite a few dedicated employees working on Solaris/OpenSolaris and I don't see that changing. -- Alan DuBoff - Sun Microsystems Solaris x86 Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
