[advocacy-discuss] Corporate Open Source
Moinak Ghosh
Moinak.Ghosh at Sun.COM
Tue Apr 29 07:45:07 PDT 2008
Laurent Blume wrote:
> I hope my answers below make sense. This topic is not one with clear-cut
> answers, and finding balance is difficult.
>
> Jim Grisanzio a écrit :
>
>
> [...]
>> Right. It has changed. We started as a community and a bunch of source
>> code, some distros and people came along, and now we are adding a new
>> distro from which other distros can be built.
>>
> [snip]
>
> So, it really feels that Sun is positioning itself as *the* leader of
> the OpenSolaris Community. Asserting its trademarks and all. It still
> makes me uneasy. I'll wait to see if there are really new distros
> successfully sprouting from it.
>
Yes, but note also that BeleniX has already successfully utilized the
Indiana
bits to become a source-level derivative and I guess Milax is using
some of
the stuff as well.
Regards,
Moinak.
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