[oi-dev] Miass OpenSolaris User Group

[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at oracle.com> wrote:

> OpenIndiana found out making that distro is hard without the hundreds of people
> Sun was paying to work on it. The number of community participants from outside
> Sun never even came close to matching the amount Sun was assigning to do the
> work (and which Oracle then kept working on Solaris 11 instead).

The problem at that time was that Sun did not let those people contribute that 
offered their help. Sun was interested to keep full control over the software.

Jörg

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