OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board Formed [LWN.net]

Sun Microsystems, Inc. has announced the names of the five individuals selected to participate in the OpenSolaris(TM) Community Advisory Board (CAB). "The five member board consists of two members who were nominated and elected by the OpenSolaris pilot community: Al Hopper, engineer consultant, Logical Approach; and Rich Teer, independent Solaris consultant and author of "Solaris Systems Programming." The three other members on the advisory board are Roy Fielding, chief scientist at Day Software and co-founder and member, the Apache Software Foundation; Simon Phipps, chief technology evangelist, Sun; and Casper Dik, senior staff engineer, Sun."

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WOW! Roy Fielding

Posted Apr 5, 2005 5:00 UTC (Tue) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Huh ? What's so impressive about it ? Since OpenSolaris consists exclusively from non-compileable DTrace right now I do not think community will have any chance to form. Publishing code is more important then political movements here...

P.S. I have nothing against Roy and I'm pretty sure he'll help OpenSolaris in some small way. Code publishing will help OpenSolaris 100 times more: when there are no code there are no community at all. If code is there we can start talking about community...

WOW! Roy Fielding

Posted Apr 5, 2005 7:21 UTC (Tue) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

> Huh ? What's so impressive about it ?

To me, the fact that they have Roy on board, seems like a serious effort by Sun to appoint people that really know how open source works. In this case, a person that is behind one of the most successful group of open source projects on the planet. Again, that counts for something, IMHO.

To be fair to Sun, they are probably in the process of "cleaning" (legally) the code in order to release it. This takes time.

Casper Dik is a Good Choice

Posted Apr 5, 2005 14:38 UTC (Tue) by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256) [Link]

I think Casper Dik is also a good choice. He's been a constructive and
technically proficient contributor to newsgroups and technical mailing lists
for as long as I've been reading them (and then some).

JimD
(The Linux Gazette "Answer Guy")

WOW! Roy Fielding

Posted Apr 6, 2005 0:50 UTC (Wed) by XERC (guest, #14626) [Link]

To be fair to Sun, they are probably in the process of "cleaning" (legally) the code in order to release it. This takes time.

Unlike the people from any open source project foundations, I can't claim to know "how open source works" as well as they do, but according to my understanding, "open source works" by having CODE AVAILABLE, FREELY REDISTRIBUTABLE(including any combinations or derivateives), FREELY COMBINABLE.

Now, if the OpenSolaris license is not compatible with GPL-ed code--the largest free code base available--, then I really fail to see, "how OpenSolaris open source works".

Another Sun masterstroke

Posted Apr 6, 2005 16:46 UTC (Wed) by spot (subscriber, #15640) [Link]

I'll call it OpenSolaris when I can use the code in other Open Source projects, other than Solaris.

Which, given Sun's immense tunnel-vision, will likely be never.

OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board Formed

Posted Apr 5, 2005 20:27 UTC (Tue) by brianomahoney (subscriber, #6206) [Link]

Casper Dik, is an extreemly good choice; he is a very long
and highly respected member of the SUN Operating community.

All we need now is for a similar figure in the Java community, ie a level headed pragmatist not SUN apologist.

This is the best news I have had of Solaris in more than 10 years.