On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > You make an important mistake here: Indiana is not a community initated > > > distro but a _Sun_ initiated one. > > > > You keep asserting this, as if anything done with or by people working > > for Sun has no validity. > > > > Bullshit. > > Would you please use a less unfriendly wording? > > > > If 95% of the people working on opensolaris things are Sun Employees, > > then (in your perspective) 95% of the things done here aren't > > community efforts. Hey, we are OpenSolaris Community members also! > > > > > SchilliX was the first community initiaded OpenSolaris distro but Sun > > > did not like to help with this distro. > > > > I'd say, rather, that Sun had its hands full with launching the whole > > opensolaris effort, and didn't have the time, resources, connections > > to the right people and/or legal ability to do the things needed to > > make Schillix happen. Transforming that complexity into a disparaging > > "Sun did not like to help" is a bit much. > > People did accuse that I did not try to create a community and for this > reason, I need to explain that Sun was not interested in such a community.
Why should Sun have to be interested? You could have proposed something to the community. Why must Sun be the one to make everything happen? -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
