[advocacy-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Credits to Joerg Schilling for having created ...

[Martin Bochnig]

Ken Mays wrote:
> Think of the distro market from the CentOS/Redhat and Ubuntu/Debian/Kubuntu models. You can't technically leave out the Linux kernel and call your distro a Linux kernel based distro - can you? Now a step up the ladder, CentOS is Redhat-based. Kubuntu and Edubuntu are Ubuntu-based. All distros. So Indiana can have distros based from it and at least developers will know they can reuse packages between the distros (we hope). Doing it at the kernel level is just not good enough anymore!
>
> ~K
>   

That's one thing.
But what I am referring to is this wording (posted to the advocacy list 
a day ago) :

Simon Phipps wrote:
>
> We are at a turning-point in the  OpenSolaris community, since it's 
> clear (to me at least) that our  initial assumption of a kernel-based 
> community with many external  distributions is no longer a good model. 
> This is not least because  (as Ian points out) it fails to deliver the 
> easy ability for there to  be a large pool of compatible applications.
>
> S.
>   

"is no longer a good model"  -  it sounds a bit hostile to the existing 
distro-communities, doesn't it?
Anyways in my understanding.
I instantly intervened, asked for a clarification, which I didn't get.
This sounds like closed corporate thinking and ruling.
Also, when a top-manager is talking about "in the  OpenSolaris 
community", what does he have in mind:

[ ]  a true motivation-driven community like over at Blastwave or Nextenda
[ ]  those individuals here who are truly willing to work on a distro 
such as Indiana, in their spare time, night and day, all the time 
offering to work, or already working on getting this or that stuff 
running, enthusiastically
[ ]  employees

Okay, my points are not convenient ones, are not welcome. Including my 
repeated offer to push SPARC_Indiana (to merge it with the SPARC-MartUX 
framework).
That makes me wonder, but I'll leave it there.
And I take it positively, that I finally have the time to fix important 
stuff: In the real world, where the laws of 
Input__generates--->>__Output are still valid, to some extent.

M.