This thread starts with someone who doesn't claim to have any
authoritative information or attempt to cite any sources using a gmail
account to post to a mailgroup. Now people turn around and say that
they doubt the sourcing on this, but looking at the archives of this
list, there are a number of posts over the years from a Dominic Kay
using this gmail address but providing links to a Sun employee blog (http://blogs.sun.com/dom/
). If you Google "Dominic Kay Oracle", you can find this (http://66.102.9.132/search?q=cache:NuhbvEoafV4J:www.snwusa.com/ereg/popups/speakerdetails.php%3Feventid%3D8242%26speakerid%3D5987+dominic+kay+oracle&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk
) cached hit as some corroboration of his role. If this is a false
flag, it was planted three years ago and has somehow managed to pass
without challenge in the interim. People are more than happy to say
that they're sceptical, but there's a lot of data points that indicate
that what is willing to self-identify as risking conspiracy theory
isn't using basic research in the public domain to see what
potentially dispositive information can be sourced there.
ZFS is increasingly integrated into the core of Solaris. Is the same
company that's giving away btrfs going to require engineering a less
powerful filesystem than zfs just so it can be a differentiator
between OpenSolaris and Solaris? Are filesystems really on a plane of
engineering where you want to develop them on an entirely separate
track from OpenSolaris, where no statement contradicts the premise
that it remains the development branch of Solaris? Even if you're sold
on the premise that Oracle are trying to maximise revenue off of
Solaris at the expense of products bundled with OpenSolaris, I just
can't get to the point where a rumour like this one seems like a
credible formulation of how they might go about that. If anything, the
result here is that a core component of Solaris would suffer from the
imposition of a more convoluted development model.
These folks running the relevant business lines have already said
publicly to the OGB that Oracle's corporate management accepts the
basic premise of OpenSolaris, so why pass the time waiting to learn
how they're going to make good on this by concocting baroque
conspiracy theories about how they're going to reverse themselves in
some material fashion or passing along rumours to that effect?
Am 20 Apr 2010 um 17:51 schrieb Eric D. Mudama:
On Tue, Apr 20 at 11:41, Don Turnbull wrote:
Not to be a conspiracy nut but anyone anywhere could have
registered that gmail account and supplied that answer. It would
be a lot more believable from Mr Kay's Oracle or Sun account.
+1
Glad I wasn't the only one who noticed.
--
Eric D. Mudama
edmud...@mail.bounceswoosh.org
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