Dennis's post on the GPLv3 thread: "Let's fast forward two more years and if we have another mad rush of people NOT joining this project what then? Another marketting fix and we rename this to the Java Enterprise OpenSolaris project with Sun Community Source License ( SCSL ) license added and on and on we go trying to fix something."
got me thinking about why we don't have more community participation on OpenSolaris. Like Dennis, I've been here since the pilot, but unlike Dennis, my contribution has been negligible. My excuse is simply time, I have a hungry bank manager and kids to feed, so I don't have a lot of spare time for what amounts to 'hobby' coding. I'm sure there are many others out here in a similar position. Unlike OpenSolaris, the Linux world has a many corporations paying for work on the kernel, drivers and applications. On one had this shows the quality of the engineering team at Sun, but on the other it puts us at a disadvantage. I don't think the community involvement in OpenSolaris will grow until we have more companies willing to pay for work on the project. I'd like nothing better than to combine my two decades of SunOs/Solaris and driver experience and make a real contribution to the project, but I simply can't afford to. The big question is how can we make this happen? Is there a demand from corporate users willing to pay for drivers and functionality? If there is, can Sun (who I assume know who wants what) through OpenSolaris connect them with developers in the community able to do the work? Ian. _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
