On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:19 PM, Anon Y Mous <system5u...@yahoo.com> wrote: > 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 ? ) >
+2 andere Schilling coins :) Respectful regards, %martin NataMar Fun: http://visgetidentifier.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
