William James wrote: > On 6/17/07, William James <williamjamesgnusolaris at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 5/31/07, Dennis Clarke <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote: >> > Therefore, as a leader in this project : >> > >> > I call for a vote of the members of this project to terminate >> > this project at OpenSolaris.org. Please indicate a YES or NO >> > below : >> > >> > YES [ ] - kill this project at OpenSolaris.org >> > >> > NO [ ] - no .. not yet. Let's work this out. >> >> I propose YES if Sun Labs does not provide a source snapshot in one week >> > > I am going to submit the project proposal to sourceforge this evening. > Proposed new name of this fork is PPlaris > > PS: Thank you, Sun, for forcing us to fork your own project. Thank you
Sun did no such thing. You can not force a person to do anything they either can't or won't do. You can't force Sun to contribute work any more than Sun can force you to. If Sun isn't contributing work to the PowerPC effort, fine, there is no stopping you from doing work on opensolaris.org without Sun. There are plenty of projects (including platform ports) going on that aren't involving Sun in any way. How does forking your own project on sourceforge.net give you anything you couldn't have done on opensolaris.org with or without Sun? In any case, yes - it's unfortunate that in this PowerPC Platform Port case, Sun isn't contributing as openly as it could be. But again, there is no dependency here. I fail to see what you could do on sf.net that you couldn't do on os.o. cheers, steve -- stephen lau // stevel at sun.com | 650.786.0845 | http://whacked.net opensolaris // solaris kernel development
