-------- Original-Nachricht -------- > Datum: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 16:28:48 -0700 > Von: Alan Coopersmith <Alan.Coopersmith at Sun.COM> > An: Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> > CC: xwin-discuss at opensolaris.org > Betreff: Re: [xwin-discuss] fox-7-4-merge repository set up
> Martin Bochnig wrote: > > p.s. I cannot work fulltime on it, not anymore. > > Except you find a way to sponsor it, then I can give up my job. > > Oh, your job and your personal life should always be your priority > - I don't expect anyone to work on it full-time - none of us at > Sun will be, since we have other things we have to do too. We do > already have enough people on the payroll here at Sun to do the work, > so are not hiring or sponsoring anyone else for this task. > > I am merely making it available so those not at Sun who have shown > an interest in the X update, like yourself, Moinak, and Ken Mays, > and our colleagues in Intel's OpenSolaris group (and anyone else > I've forgotten or don't know about) can see what we're doing and > participate if you want to. There is no requirement for anyone > to do anything, no expectations of anyone to do anything, just a > making available of what we're doing. This is open source, not > conscripted free labor. > > -- > -Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com > Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering Ohh, yes. Of course, how could I forget about this. It's not a modern pattern of corporate strategies. No. > already have enough people on the payroll here at Sun to do the work Allow me, yourself, and anyone else this question: How useful is the SPARC-Xorg server that you are currently shipping as part of Solaris 10 and Nevada? And even with libpciaccess for the future, when 1.5 and all your patches will ship one day: Apparently you didn't have enough people on the payroll to support legacy UPA based FFB1/FFB1+/FFB2/FFB2+ Ceator and Elite3D cards. But of course, it is all totally worthless what I have done.
