[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] [indiana-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

[Jim Grisanzio]

James Mansion wrote: 

> Surely, having a kernel developer community is the least of Sun's 
> actual problems.
> Sun has developers and having most development done in the context of 
> a funded and
> managed environment is very valuable.  What is needed most of all is a 
> *user* community
> that extends beyond those of us who work in large corporates who have 
> medium and
> large Sun servers.


I agree that a user community is critical, but we need to quantify the 
term "users" a bit. We are not going to be Windows or Mac any time soon 
in terms of usability and/or market share for general users. We are 
trying to first engage technical users or power users or whatever the 
correct term is. Developer-users? Developers are still the core, but we 
are expanding the range of developers from kernel upwards. All I meant 
was that we were a source community before, and that made it harder for 
users to get involved.

> From that perspective, having a community that contributes to an 
> involving user-land
> has to be the primary focus, and I suspect that the decisions to call 
> this 'OpenSolaris'
> and to make it much more receptive to people familiar with packaging 
> for Linux
> is right on the money.

I think people like what Indiana is and will bring to the community ... 
once we get around the naming issue.

Jim
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