[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source

[Shawn Walker]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Laurent Blume <laurent at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> Jim Grisanzio a écrit :
>
> > We seem to be in some blogs and on Slashdot recently -- and not
>  > necessarily in nice ways.
>  [snip]
>
>  Jim - I find Ted's article rather relevant.
>
>  Now, as a long-standing member of the Solaris, then OpenSolaris
>  community, I'm completely in the dark as to where this community is going.
>
>  First, what does OpenSolaris means? It's not what it was just one year
>  ago. Will it be still the same in one year from now? I doubt it.
>  Sun managed to kill all the buzz about the other OpenSolaris distros.

Pardon, but I think you're wrong about that. Look at just about any
slashdot, OSNews, or other website article that mentions OpenSolaris.
You'll always find someone that talks about Nexenta, Belenix, etc.

In addition to that, the Distribution CG has just sponsored a new
OpenSolaris distribution called "Milax" which you can find out more
about here:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/milax/

Whatever Sun does is likely to spawn a flurry of press-related
activity, that's only natural given that they're a public company.

But Sun was doing that a few years ago -- outsiders have always seen
the SXCE or other editions linked from opensolaris.org as OpenSolaris.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

"To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." -
Robert Orben