[OpenIndiana-discuss] Dear OI community: THANK YOU for all your encouraging lines :)

[Nikola M.]

You are great!
If you don't have time to read in short:
Open Bitcoin address to receive money, Illumos support for SPARC is
great other distos welcome, OpenSXCE is not Oracle's brand?, OpenSXCE is
compatible with OI IPS and you have OI community support!,will love to
have all my OI contributions available for SPARC, too. :)

In long:
I heard you had some financial problems, how do you think you can fix that
with people and interested companies in Illumos/OI SPARC (Open SXCE).
I just wonder if OpenSXCE is name that is not going to be tapped by
Oracle in some time?

I use Openindiana x86 on a laptop and I am happy to know I can have
desktop and IPS on SPARC, too (Instead of just using Solaris 10/11
closed bits).

So I think you can and will continue to have support from Openindiana
community,
not only for sharing IPS packages and .spec files , but also as a
compatible distribution one can count on for SPARC and use it in
parallel with x86 one.

I myself is interested in learning how to build Firefox and Thunderbird
and also
to have any packaging contribution available for both x86 Openindiana
and OpenSXCE SPARC.
Also it would be great to have also other distributions use and enhance
SPARC code in Illumos, that could only benefit to all!

Thank you once again for your hard work in hard times
and just one small suggestion:
Leave also BITCOIN address for funding open,
you never know who might wan to use it to support you from time to time. :P
You can transfer funds from it in Euros or use it directly to buy things
you need.

Thanks! :)
Nikola M.
Europe, Serbia, Belgrade
minikola at gmail.com

On 02/28/13 05:39 PM, Martin Bochnig wrote:
> I wasn't online for a long time, and probably 150 mails still need to
> be answered. Only this much in advance: It was not my intention to
> burn a single bridge.
> It was probably not understood correctly. I only tried to protect myself.
> And back then, a month ago, I simply attempted to emphasize, that I
> did not simply just use Illumos. But that I really wanted to do
> something not only with, but also for, Illumos.
>
> I only said that it would technically be possible to just take OS/Net
> and add the missing pieces, as in the past.
> I never said it would be a good idea to partition our small community
> even further.
>
> If you see the slideshow that is part of OpenSXCE's Caiman
> gui-install, then you see the Illumos logo face to face with the
> OpenSXCE logo. As on my twitter account's background image.
>
> Would I do that if I hated Illumos?
> I could branch off, but for which reason?
> It would be dumb to destroy the hot wire to these highly skilled
> kernel engineers.
>
> And it makes little sense, to just "steal" interesting new diffs from
> upstream Illumos .
> Consequently I think it would be the best for the community's future,
> to leave the SPARC code inside Illumos and to base OpenSXCE on it.
>
> And if users really demand IPS, ok.
> Then we could think about doing that, too.
> Definitely it would be a ton easier, than correcting/creating/removing
> the SVR4 pkgdefs for about 100000 files (speaking of all
> consolidations, the OpenSXCE gate contains 9GB).
> From August to September I did fiddle with IPS, so that's not impossible.
> It only consumes light-years of CPU time.
>
> I also do not intend to harm the friendly busy helpful OI community.
> So it will probably be best to work together with OI and to have both
> at once (just as in the good old times SXCE and Indiana, from November
> 2007 till early 2010).
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>    %martin
>
>