OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board Formed
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."
Posted Apr 4, 2005 23:47 UTC (Mon)
by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
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Nice job Sun!
Posted Apr 5, 2005 5:00 UTC (Tue)
by khim (subscriber, #9252)
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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...
Posted Apr 5, 2005 7:21 UTC (Tue)
by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
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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.
Posted Apr 5, 2005 14:38 UTC (Tue)
by AnswerGuy (guest, #1256)
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Posted Apr 6, 2005 0:50 UTC (Wed)
by XERC (guest, #14626)
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Posted Apr 5, 2005 16:57 UTC (Tue)
by b7j0c (guest, #27559)
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I will call it OpenSolaris only when I can download the tarball. Until then it is a PR stunt like JCP.
Posted Apr 6, 2005 16:46 UTC (Wed)
by spot (guest, #15640)
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Which, given Sun's immense tunnel-vision, will likely be never.
Posted Apr 5, 2005 20:27 UTC (Tue)
by brianomahoney (guest, #6206)
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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.
Impressive, very impressive! Here is a link to Roy T. Fielding's web site: http://roy.gbiv.com/, for the more curious.WOW! Roy Fielding
WOW! Roy Fielding
> Huh ? What's so impressive about it ?WOW! Roy Fielding
I think Casper Dik is also a good choice. He's been a constructive andCasper Dik is a Good Choice
technically proficient contributor to newsgroups and technical mailing lists
for as long as I've been reading them (and then some).
(The Linux Gazette "Answer Guy")
To be fair to Sun, they are probably in the process of "cleaning" (legally) the code in order to release it. This takes time.
WOW! Roy Fielding
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".
Once again they make overtures to the open source community without actually releasing anything. Brilliant PR.Another Sun masterstroke
I'll call it OpenSolaris when I can use the code in other Open Source projects, other than Solaris.Another Sun masterstroke
Casper Dik, is an extreemly good choice; he is a very longOpenSolaris Community Advisory Board Formed
and highly respected member of the SUN Operating community.