[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap

[James Relph]

> 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.
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> That'd be do-able, and probably the closest to a win-win situation that you're likely to find.
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> I, personally, doubt if you could make enough money on it to make it worth your while; but perhaps you could.  

You actually wouldn't need to make enough money on it in and of itself to make it worthwhile.  If we could find developers interested then we'd actually be happy to pay a few for some work as it would help in other areas of our business.  I think there's probably a few businesses like that.  If we're making money with boxes using Oi (which we are) it makes sense for us to make Oi better.  We've not got the budget of Nexenta, Joyent etc., but we've got a bit.

The problem is finding appropriate developers, we've advertised, asked around online and at two Universities near us, and not had anyone either with any Solaris/Illumos experience, or interested in learning.  We may have found one person now interested in some contract work on specific features, but that's it!

James

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