On 15/07/2010 22:47, Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
IMHO, The Oracle/Sun provided OpenSolaris reference distribution (henceforth
referred to as Indiana to avoid confusion) has done the community a disservice,
in the sense that it has prevented a community from producing something itself.
All the
Alasdair Lumsden wrote:
Obviously the issue the community has is that we've never had the ability to
produce the distribution itself. We don't have the ability to build all the
packages that go into the IPS repo, nor produce the Live CD, nor do we have
an installer. And of course, finding
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote:
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
The community needs to be able to prevent moves into a direction that is
aparently driven by customers but against the will of the majority of the
users
and the community needs to be able to
Dev Mazumdar d...@opensound.com wrote:
We are not sure Open Solaris customers are necessarily Oracle's customers.
Oracle wants Solaris to push its databases. OpenSolaris community wants
an alternative to Linux and FreeBSD. Oracle becomes a client of the
OpenSolaris community, just like IBM
joerg ,
A much simpler approach could be taken where everybody benefits:
- Oracle is donating a large amount of src code outside. Thats great.
Community should take it and make their own cookies as they please !
- Im not really sure if you will have a connection established the way
the
We are not sure Open Solaris customers are necessarily Oracle's customers.
Oracle wants Solaris to push its databases. OpenSolaris community wants
an alternative to Linux and FreeBSD. Oracle becomes a client of the
OpenSolaris community, just like IBM and Redhat became clients of the
Linux
IMHO, The Oracle/Sun provided OpenSolaris reference distribution (henceforth
referred to as Indiana to avoid confusion) has done the community a disservice,
in the sense that it has prevented a community from producing something itself.
All the other OpenSolaris based distributions such as
Someone from the community needs to step up and become the Linus Torvalds of
OpenSolaris. Someone with good engineering skills - someone who has written a
butt load of code for Solaris.
Candidates? Garrett, Dana Myers, Dan Mick, Jorg, Shawn, Dennis, Alan
On the other hand, someone with a
Dev Mazumdar wrote:
On the other hand, someone with a good lawyer should sue Oracle for false
advertisement when Larry Ellison claimed he was going to spend more money on
Solaris than Sun ever did in the past year (yeah Larry, where's the funding
for Open Sound/Boomer?)
Spending more money
Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersm...@oracle.com wrote:
Dev Mazumdar wrote:
On the other hand, someone with a good lawyer should sue Oracle for false
advertisement when Larry Ellison claimed he was going to spend more money
on Solaris than Sun ever did in the past year (yeah Larry, where's
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
The community needs to be able to prevent moves into a direction that is
aparently driven by customers but against the will of the majority of the
users
and the community needs to be able to put back their developments results.
That will only
From my limited perspective and understanding dev wants it in game layer on a
gamble. Good Luck ??
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That will only happen if the community makes its own
fork. Neither Sun
nor Oracle would put the community wishes ahead of
customer requirements,
nor do I know of any successful open source OS driven
by majority votes of
users.
I believe the root cause of this problem lies in the fact that
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On 7/14/2010 7:11 PM, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
The community needs to be able to prevent moves into a direction that is
aparently driven by customers but against the will of the majority of the
users
From my limited perspective and understanding dev
wants it in game layer on a gamble. Good Luck ??
Explain please; I'm not even 100% sure what you're saying,
let alone why. I would imagine that if someone wanted
an OS to do gaming on, and they didn't want any of the
more obvious
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