[oi-dev] Orange Indiana?

[James Winter]

What if we created a "branch" from the kernel that would then allow 
portability across all platforms.  Kinda like the Motorola / Android / 
Ubuntu project they had a few years back.  In the project they had 1 
android phone that when placed on a dock was able to use the android 
kernel and run an Ubuntu desktop natively.

Totally agree on the developer / sysadmin perspective that the "daily 
driver"
just "needs to work" so I have used Apple in the past.  Fed up with the 
walled garden mentality of the iPhone I started to look at the different 
brands and marketing approaches that have been used in the past to work 
on a project that would be affordable, have a commercial branch for 
support and be up to date.  If (any of) the commercial branch(s) create 
changes within the code, they would be required to release the code 
after a "grace period" (thinking about monthly releases if viable so 32 
days for the release of the commercial changes to give the open group ~ 
a month to add it in for the next release and those that wish to pay for 
the support services would have the improvements, patches and releases 2 
months in advance if not added already into the open group)

I would be open to discussion about starting a commercial group based on 
the Open Indiana / illumos platform.

James R. M. Winter