[advocacy-discuss] Community Innovation Awards

[Ken Mays]

Alan Coopersmith said:
"These are of course absolutely critical areas to the success of OpenSolaris,
but they generally aren't sources of "Innovation". I could see some work
there being innovative - creating a new driver framework like Nemo, the IPS
work, or defining a new way to get documentation to users - but just writing
a driver for a given device, porting/packaging an existing application, or
writing documentation aren't breaking new ground."

I don't agree with this 100% as that 'new' device drivers are critical when it allows an OEM to get a motherboard or hardware working properly (i.e. hibernation mode, ATI FireGL support, etc). Writing documentation is also one of those seemingly 'thankless' jobs that built the 'Sun BluePrint' collection and docs.sun.com. Someone can create IPS framework, but lack of good docs to support it will only get it so far with end-users. Same with Xorg/XSun.

~ Ken Mays @ Blastwave.org
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