On Jun 25, 2007, at 9:46 PM, Simon Phipps wrote:
On Jun 26, 2007, at 02:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Isn't anyone in the least bit interested seeing OpenSolaris
actually be able to employ people or pay for things itself
rather than depend on the good will of Sun to do it all?
OK, I'm confused. Earlier you asserted that open source was all
about people volunteering for free. Now you want to raise funds and
hire programmers?
It didn't work very well for the Debian community[1], but then, the
various OpenSolaris communities are markedly different.
OpenBSD, for instance, has a history of funding developers through
donations with good results.
[1] http://www.zdnetasia.com/news/software/0,39044164,61976570,00.htm
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