[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

[DormitionSkete@hotmail.com]

Fact #1 - The OI Community seems to be filled with a whole lot more people asking for features than there are developers to implement them.  Some of these are reasonable requests, too, but there just simply aren't that many people actually working on OI to make them all possible even if the developers wanted to.

Fact #2 - OI doesn't have any real organizational structure, nor do the OI developers seem to want any.  You can't charge anyone a dime for anything without an organizational structure in place -- and you can't force an organizational structure down the OI developers' throats, or they'll simply leave, and OI will die.

Friendly suggestion:

If you want security updates, there's no reason why some of you can't get together and start your own business offering these updates for a fee.  OI is open source.  You wouldn't necessarily have to start your own distribution, although you could do that, too.  But the code base is out there.  You can charge a fee for these services.  And if you want to be real nice, contribute the security fixes back to OI for inclusion in later releases.

That'd be do-able, and probably the closest to a win-win situation that you're likely to find.

I, personally, doubt if you could make enough money on it to make it worth your while; but perhaps you could.  

It's called, entrepreneurialism.