Jennifer Pioch said: >If Jörg continues this path I'd propose to throw Mr. Jörg out of opensolaris.
FYI: I don't think it's right for anybody to belittle or deprecate Joerg's contributions to Solaris / OpenSolaris and to the broader community of Unix-like operating systems (which includes Linux and BSD). Sure, Joerg may not be a core contributer of Nevada code the way guys like Moinak Ghosh, Alan Coopersmith, Garret D'Amore, Dan Price, etc. etc. are, but let's look at some of his contributions to the greater good here: (1) He wrote the first free / opensource tar implementation in 1982. (2) Did a partially complete Unix-like operating system for the Atari in 1986 (a truly valiant effort, as I have a ColecoVision game console with Pong and Donkey Kong on it rotting away in the attic somewhere and wouldn't mind getting some kind of unix on it). (3) He is the mastermind behind CDRTOOLS!!!! (including cdrecord, mkisofs, cdda2wav, isodebug, rscsi, etc. etc.) Writing a multi-platform, multi-os cd / dvd / blue ray software package like this is no minor undertaking. This is not easy code to write, but rather true blue collar, back-breaking, "build the great wall of china with your bear hands" style computer programming. Think about that next time you burn a CD on a unix-like operating system. (4) He created Schillix, the first bootable pure-OpenSolaris distribution which was a major milestone and important "jump start" of momentum to get the whole OpenSolaris ball rolling. See links below for more info: http://schily.blogspot.com/2005/06/schillix-is-real-now.html http://schily.blogspot.com/2005/05/first-pure-opensolaris-based-boot-cd.html (5) He is heavily involved with berliOS, which has around 2,000 project, 10,000 users and 4TB of downloads a month. (6) He is an expert in writing drivers for high resolution scanners which is an area that OpenSolaris really needs to improve in if it's ever going to become a dominant enterprise desktop OS (compare the scanner support in OpenSolaris to the scanner support in Mac OS X or Microsoft Windows and you'll see why we need to improve here). Anyone else (including Joerg) feel free to add more numbers to this list. Other than that, I do think Joerg should perhaps be a little more flexible in signing the contributer agreement to allow his code to be integrated into the larger project. Star and cdrecord as good as they are, will disappear into obscurity and disuse and will be inevitably be replaced by inferior products if no one uses and distributes them because of real or perceived / imaginary licensing and legal issues. That's my 20 cents ( zwei Schilling Münzen ? ) -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
