> You can say absoultely anything vulgar or crass and > insulting as long as your opinions are favorable of > OpenSolaris and/or Oracle.
You're not getting censored (give or take the four-letter word blocking that I suspect is automatic if posting and/or reading via the Jive forums). The only people I've actually seen censored were those who were going further over the top than any of us here have yet done (very rare) or spammers that signed up for an account and then posted their ads dozens or more times (often to multiple lists). Do you really expect people that are mostly here voluntarily because they _use_ OpenSolaris and/or Solaris to be sympathetic to unsubstantiated criticism? There are some technical issues I'd disagree with (too slow tracking POSIX:2008, while spending proportionately too much effort trying to appeal to Linux users - many of which are ideologues that wouldn't be impressed anyway unless OpenSolaris went GPL, at which point they'd just want to gut it for goodies and dump the rest). But my main criticism is that while Sun wasn't stellar at community or communication, Oracle (the company, _not_ the developers, who aren't allowed to speak as freely as they used to be) seems to be either clueless or willfully negligent when it comes to the intersection of community and communication. Let me point out again that a number of the developers go as far as they're allowed (and as the 24 hour-in-a-day limit we all suffer under permits) to be helpful and informative, answering questions they're allowed to answer, and donating code written on their own time over and above what they write as an employee. We don't help them by being compliant little drones, but notwithstanding your apparent perception, I really don't think there are a whole lot of those here. Most of us that have been here awhile, even if we generally like (Open)Solaris, aren't anywhere near 100% happy with how everything is done. We shouldn't expect to be, given that different things that some of us want may be mutually exclusive. On the other hand, I don't see that FUD-slinging, regardless of how Oracle's non-communication policy enables it, helps to improve the results either. How is your criticism helping? -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
