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[Alan Coopersmith]

John Plocher wrote:
> 2009/5/29 Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at sun.com>:
>> We'd like to go with an open source solution, yes.
> 
> Which is pretty ironic, since the entire hosting setup and app space
> for OpenSolaris.org is set up such that only certain Sun employees can
> get developer or admin level access to any of the stuff...
> 
> What good is it to have open source if the community members can't
> actually do anything with it?  

That's like complaining that it's no good to have the OS code open source
since only certain Sun employees can actually do putbacks or build the
official build packages/images.   Like developers working on the OS,
community members can setup their own test installations, make changes,
test them there and contribute them back - I've done that to contribute
to other web applications where I can't login to the server running the
app the world sees, but I can admin my own test instance on a Linux box
at home.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering