> > If Sun would just get out of the way as you > suggest, > > and let the external > > folks do what they wanted, OpenSolaris would be a > > real mess. > Wow - that is so wrong. You would not want to apply > the same analogy in say a child's case, forget adults > for a moment. Cause then it will never learn, never > venture into depths and never take risks. You > basically are saying that everyone else is a fool. > That could not be right. You limit the possibilities > by asserting some totally wrong assumption and being > a control freak.
When a child learns, it needs guidance by parents to help it interpret and understand experiences. There is more than one way to learn, but unfortunately some ways are worse than others. Right now, even as we are discussing this, "children" are learning and being taught to interpret their experiences in many new and different contexts. This is a process that might take a while, but eventually the attentive children will learn and will become just as capable adults as their "parents". Others who were "less attentive" will give up and fall out. Such is the way of life. One can see it every day in schools and families; good students are good because they don't give up and because they realize that they have to *seek to understand*, and those who do not never reach that level of understanding. To apply this to the OpenSolaris case, if you let children learn without guidance, chances are high they'll create a mess in the learning process -- that is why guidance is both needed and efficient. If you let people do ad-hoc "necessary" changes to OpenSolaris, it would turn into a hacked-patched-up *mess* really fast. Without the experience to properly interpret the context and without the insights, one might believe certain changes to be "necessary", when they are actually completely unnecessary, or when there is a better way. What you are suggesting is exactly what the GNU/GPL/Linux community did. While they have a pretty "clicky-bunty" operating system, the core of it is poorly engineered and can not scale. The context to understand here is "scale", and what that really means. This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
