W. Wayne Liauh wrote:
I am glad to hear that at least some of Sun's engineers are infectiously excited about OpenSolaris.
Please note that not all of Sun's engineers actually work on Solaris and/or OpenSolaris. IMHO, those that do work on it *are* infectiously excited about OpenSolaris.
That still leaves several thousand engineers who could care less about it :-) Not to imply that they really don't care about OpenSolaris, but consider the engineers working on J2EE who are themselves infectiously excited about their recent efforts to open-source the Application Server, or those who are infectiously excited about OpenOffice, or those others who are infectiously excited about NetBeans. Then there is myself, trying to get someone else (anyone, please!) infectiously excited about systems architecture :-)
I have no idea who you were conversing with, but is it so unconceivable that they might have interests other than OpenSolaris?
Sun is doing a *lot* in the open source arena, with much more "in progress". Unfortunately, that means that many of us are heads down over committed doing the grunt work to make that future a reality, and so, don't have the time or energy to fully engage in these high volume discussion forums (forae?)
Don't forget that, like all (most?) of you, Sun Engineers are only human. We all have our good and our bad days, email that somehow changes meaning between sending and reading, misunderstandings, context-cache misses and the like. Sometimes, no matter how hard we try not to, something sets us off and someone else catches the brunt of it. For myself and the others in this community who on occasion behave in ways that are not up to our own high standards, I apologize for whatever it was that was said, and I hope that we can continue building a community of understanding, trust and friendship.
-John _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
