Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread Joerg Schilling
Andrew Pattison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What the OpenSolaris project needs > > the most is users. A bunch of them. > > OpenSolaris was created to get developers interested in Solaris, not users. > Certainly Solaris could do with a few of those too. I thought that OpenSolaris has nearly 1

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread Brian Gupta
The OpenSolaris project is similar to the Fedora project. See: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ The primary reason for the existence of the opensolaris project is to coordinate the distributed development of Solaris. (The open source version of solaris is called opensolaris). User input is a value

Re: [osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread Alan Coopersmith
W. Wayne Liauh wrote: First time I have learned that OpenSolaris is not interested in recruiting users. Because it's not true. The emphasis on developers is because users won't come without apps to run, so we need the developers first to make it more attractive to the users, but more users is

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> > What the OpenSolaris project needs > > the most is users. A bunch of them. > > OpenSolaris was created to get developers interested > in Solaris, not users. Certainly Solaris could do > with a few of those too. > > Andrew. First time I have learned that OpenSolaris is not interested in rec

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread Andrew Pattison
> What the OpenSolaris project needs > the most is users. A bunch of them. OpenSolaris was created to get developers interested in Solaris, not users. Certainly Solaris could do with a few of those too. Andrew. This message posted from opensolaris.org ___

[osol-discuss] Re: Re: GPL in BusinessWeek article

2007-05-01 Thread W. Wayne Liauh
> GPL won't help Solaris too much imho nor will it make > Linux gain instant access to dtrace or zfs. Linux is > getting zfs...it is on the way already. But it won't > be the same...porting zfs over to Linux will not give > it the same quality. Look at the XFS fiasco. > In the article: In Sun's vi