[gnu-sol-discuss] Re: [sfwnv-discuss] Re: [ports-discuss] Re: [sfwnv] Open Source software and OpenSolaris. What is the deal?

[Stefan Teleman]

On Friday 04 May 2007 17:26, Laszlo (Laca) Peter wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 17:07 -0400, Brian Gupta wrote:
> > Personally, if feel that if it doesn't make it into Solaris, than
> > I am wasting my time. (I don't run xyz dist of OpenSolaris on my
> > mission critical servers. I run Solaris, and am contributing to
> > this effort in order to bring Solaris closer to *my* ideal.
>
> I don't think it's a waste of time.  Blastwave isn't _in_ Solaris
> and it's definitely not a waste of time.
>
> People prefer different editors, irc clients, email apps, etc.
> It doesn't mean that all those should be _in_ Solaris and supported
> by Sun.  For most purposes, it's enough if there's an online
> repository where you can get the latest and greatest from.  And
> that's what these overlapping projects aim to provide.

To this i would add: in order for <X> to be considered for inclusion 
in Solaris, i think the first step is to show a viable model for <X>. 

I believe we would have gone a looong way from where we are right now  
if we show a concrete and viable model, albeit only in OpenSolaris 
for starters.

--Stefan

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