Musings and Open Questions

Musings and Open Questions

Posted Aug 29, 2012 17:32 UTC (Wed) by louie (subscriber, #3285)
In reply to: Musings and Open Questions by tstover
Parent article: OpenIndiana lead Alasdair Lumsden resigns

Our hearts should always long for exploration.

That's completely right. The question for OpenSolaris, of course, is and always has been - what are you exploring? GNOME 3, for better or for worse, is exploring some very different ideas about what a shell looks like and does. OpenSolaris appeared to be exploring fairly well trod areas - open-licensed operating systems - with no good explanation of what new ground they were going to cover (other than dtrace and ZFS). If they'd been able to explain their vision - or, in your terms, explain what new ground they were exploring - they would probably have attracted people who were interested in joining them in that exploration. But they never were able to do that, as far as I could tell.

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