On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 03:40:39PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote: > No it does not. You are making the assumption that world domination can not > happen *with* technical excellence.
No. User base growth is a goal but technical excellence is a constraint. I am asserting that reversing those leads to certain failure. > Okay. So in that case stop accepting a pay check. Right now. You don't need > money anymore and neither does Sun if we can get everyone to work for free. > Sounds like utopia for the shareholder. When will you start with that ? > > It *is* your affair. You do work for Sun right ? If you do then you *must* > always be focused on doing good business first. And by any meaning ful > definition a good business is one with a good cashflow. This is an open engineering community. We care about some of the same things that business people do, but only because those things - understanding the nature of the problems that need to be solved - are essential to successful engineering. Figuring out how to utilise those solutions to make money is not the concern of *this community* even though it's related. If no one wants to separate the two, the OpenSolaris Community is not a community at all. Me, I prefer to keep my employer's business affairs separate and private while I work on software openly and publicly. I guess you find that bizarre. > I define success, in the context of this community, as a community with a > common vision to to create an open source UNIX distribution that we can all > name OpenSolaris and also contribute to it. Something I can download, I can > build it ALL OF IT from sources and then fetch and run open source software > from a vast repo of community based software. All of it being maintianed and > updated within the community and all of it based on technology that WORKS > now. I don't share your vision, but I'm sure many people do, so I'm glad that you've described it for us. Thank you. -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" Fishworks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
