[opensolaris-summit] [ogb-discuss] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Darren Reed]

Stephen Lau wrote:

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>>If we were a true bona-fide opensource project and with a bit
>>of luck, we can get a server into a back-bone ISP's colocation
>>facility using 1RU or less of space.
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>There are plenty of open source projects who succeed massively without 
>the need for non-profit foundations.
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True.  Outside of the BSDs and a few large proejcts, I'm not
sure of any that have pursued this path (strangely, it doesn't
come for free.)  I see OpenSolaris as being big enough that it
is worth considering.  It depends on whether the goal of OpenSolaris
is to become  "business" in the sense that RedHat and others
have or the foundations for others, such as BSD does.

In this vein, Indiana is a different approach again. It is shaping up
to be the first distribution to also come from the base platform vendor.

Given that, it is unclear whether becoming non-profit is in the best
interests of OpenSolaris.

But I will add this: if it does become non-profit then it becomes
more attractive for 3rd party people who want to use OpenSolaris
to contribute financially to its survival.  That should be a carrot
hanging from a stick for Sun :)

Darren