OpenSolaris as a seperate entity to Sun (Re: [osol-discuss] Re: [ogb-discuss] Re: [advocacy-discuss] Re: Logo/Mascot for OpenSolaris)

[Alan Coopersmith]

Darren.Reed at Sun.COM wrote:
> To make it an attractive destination for other companies,
> besides Sun, to donate cash/hardware.

And what would we do with that?   (Really - I'm coming from
a background of the X.Org Foundation, which is having a hard
time finding ways to spend it's cash - it's not enough to hire
a stable of full-time developers, so has avoided paying for
projects so it doesn't fall into the same hole as Debian and
other projects who paid people but by doing so, had volunteers
decide they didn't want to work on it without pay, for a net
loss of people working on the project.   Obviously Sun is
already paying many OpenSolaris developers, so the dynamics
here would be different.)

> Or is making OpenSolaris attractive for other companies
> to back not a goal of OpenSolaris?

It's not one I've ever seen anyone list as a goal.

> Isn't anyone in the least bit interested seeing OpenSolaris
> actually be able to employ people or pay for things itself
> rather than depend on the good will of Sun to do it all?

You really see enough people or companies donating the sum
required to hire anyone?  I can't see $100,000+ falling into
our lap anytime soon.

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