On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:41 PM, Joerg Schilling < joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote: > > > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote: > > > The problem is that Sun/Oracle did already fork and changed things > without > > > asking the comunity whether this to be accepted by the community. > > > > That's not forking, that's just Sun controlling the project as they > always > > did - there's still just one source tree and the same basic groups > working > > on it. The community never had a choice of accepting or denying Sun's > work. > > The original constitution may have mistakenly given the illusion that it > > could, but in practice, we all knew that wasn't true. The community > could > > never say "Sorry Sun, we know you spent millions developing, testing and > > Well I am not sure whether you have been in Santa Clara on September 14th > 2004. > At that time, it was obviouy that Sun was speaking about a co-development > between people from Sun and people fron the external community. > > I still believe that we need this model in order to make OpenSolaris a > successfull OSS project. > I partially agree with this, Jörg. I'm thinking in examples such as GNU/Linux, and its 75% of large company contributed code. Not only Red Hat, Canonical, or some other typical GNU/Linux distro company. A lot of the code has been a contribution of several other companies. In fact, there is no company and/or community with more than a 20% of code contribution. We can continue with a co-development, but I think it's time to make some efforts to involve some other companies interested in the OpenSolaris / Solaris continuity, such as Fujitsu, for example. Best regards, HeCSa. > > Jörg > > -- > > EMail:jo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de<email%3ajo...@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de>(home) > Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin > j...@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) > joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: > http://schily.blogspot.com/ > URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > -- HeCSa
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