On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 7:38 PM, Steven Acres <ad...@swatteksystems.com>wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 6:21 PM, Peter Tribble <peter.trib...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 12:09 AM, Steven Acres <ad...@swatteksystems.com> >> wrote: >> > All, >> > >> > The best model to look at IMHO is redhat/fedora. This was the initial >> > proving ground of opensource (otherwise known as: how do we make money >> from >> > something we give away?) Furthering that: CentOS. >> >> The redhat/fedora model draws interesting parallels. There was a huge >> uproar when redhat got out of the free (and consumer) market. Seems >> to have worked out reasonably well for them. >> >> Then it took a while for fedora to actually stand on its own. I suspect >> we're much closer to the rehat/fedora model at its beginning than we >> are to its present state. >> >> Fedora is now quite successful, but it wasn't an easy ride. If that is a >> valuable model to consider, how do we get to that from where we are now? >> >> -- >> -Peter Tribble >> http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ >> > > Peter and friends, > > I agree, we are much closer to Fedora's inception. And I don't think it''ll > be an easy ride for us either as the last few months have certainly eluded. > If we could/would follow the Fedora model we need to decide what we need > and want out of the OpenSolaris project. Let's define where we are and where > we want to be. > I haven't tried building the complete OpenSolaris platform for a while but > that is something we could be concentrating on towards a true community > distro and repos. To hell with the FUD. > > > > -- > Cheers, > > Steven > ----------------------- > Steven Acres > Toronto OpenSolaris User Group <TOROSUG> > Leader > http://opensolaris.org/os/project/torosug > > -- Cheers, Steven ----------------------- Steven Acres Toronto OpenSolaris User Group <TOROSUG> Leader http://opensolaris.org/os/project/torosug
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