On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Dave Johnson <dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com> wrote: > This is how Oracle treats open communities and projects. Will OGB intervene? > > David > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Dave Johnson <dave.johnson.inqu...@googlemail.com> > Date: Mon, May 10, 2010 at 12:44 PM > Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] [desktop-discuss] 2010.03, when will it be > available? > To: "Richard L. Hamilton" <rlha...@smart.net> > Cc: opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org, indiana-disc...@opensolaris.org > > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Richard L. Hamilton <rlha...@smart.net> wrote: >>> Slide 22 is also very interesting and gives me a lot >>> of reassurance: >>> >>> OpenSolaris >>> • Oracle will continue to make OpenSolaris available >>> as open source and >>> Oracle will continue to actively support and >>> participate in the >>> OpenSolaris community >>> • Oracle is investing more in Solaris than Sun did >>> prior to the >>> acquisition, and will continue to contribute >>> innovative technologies to >>> OpenSolaris, as Oracle already does for many other >>> open source projects >>> >>> Coming from Oracle there's no longer any doubt that >>> it will be alright. >>> I'm going to be an OpenSolairs user for quite some >>> time to come. ;-) >> >> While that presentation was indeed reassuring, from the >> reactions I've seen so far, many seem to hope that >> "participate in the OpenSolaris community" would include >> less restrictive communication than it appears is allowed >> by the current application of their policies to OpenSolaris. >> >> I see open source plus community meaning, when it wouldn't >> compromise competitive information about a pending product, >> that the development process and activity is also open, to include >> some information about _planned_ components thereof, as well. >> >> One of the many reasons for more open communication is that >> outside contributors should be entitled to a little courtesy when >> their work is affected (look at ksh93-discuss to see a case of that). > > Oracle doesn't want the command modernisation and ksh93 projects. They > had too much community influence in the past, are too independent and > Oracle wants to replace the Solaris commands in usr/bin with GNU > commands. Oracle has already decided that in February and now try to > get rid of the projects by denying them repository access. > The projects are dead. There is enough evidence what Oracle is planning. > > Dave
Where's your "evidence", troll? Jenny -- Jennifer Pioch, Uni Frankfurt _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
