[OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenSXCE

[Dormition Skete (Hotmail)]

I really hesitated to post anything about OpenSXCE because I didn’t want to open people up to another Martin-bashing contest.  And immediately after hitting the “Send” button, I had the thought, “I really should have sent that privately to Peter.”  But that thought came just a hair too late, unfortunately.

I like Martin a lot.  He doesn’t have any interest whatsoever in what I think is important, but I like him.  So let’s please not have yet another ugly exchange about him.  It’s always easier to find fault with someone than to support him.  After all, to support a person takes a lot more work, and virtue.

Personally, if I had sparc gear, and couldn’t find a better OS for it, and if I thought OpenSXCE would be a reasonably decent solution for us, I’d offer Martin some money for paid support.  I bet he’d be give world-class support for a pittance compared to anyone else — for it would give him some money to eat with.

If I’m jumping the gun here, please forgive me — but let’s all please be nice about Martin.  There has been far too much fault-finding with him already.

For what it’s worth, I’d appreciate it.

Cordially,

Peter, hieromonk


On Sep 8, 2014, at 8:34 AM, Nikola M. <minikola at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 09/ 8/14 11:07 AM, Jim Klimov wrote:
>> His mood about the ability of both sides to collaborate did fluctuate over time, but the last I heard from his blog, he did intend to push his sources into the public space. Ne is just wary that more commercialy apt sharks would take his multi-year and multi-dollar investment baby, for granted and for free, earn money for themselves and leave him on the curb
> One can not protect personal time and work investment in free software projects that way,
> but with developing in open and in continuing collaborative effort.
> Best way of protecting your work actually and keep derived work able to be used is to be publicly visible with changes, so no one can tell it is anyone else's contribution, but yours.
> 
> Word is that people tend to buy support contracts from people that know their stuff and that can fix things for people using software products used in production.
> 
> One of things that lure people in using free software and software developed with open source model,
> is that there is not a single party that can produce working product out of code.
> On contrary, that right is explicitly allowed to the end user/customer with all benefits of being able to change software you are using to better fit yourself.
> 
> Martin is simply wrong with not releasing and developing in open.
> it's obviously not doing it any good nor for anyone else. Not to mention licenses for software require code to be released on every binary release to _anyone_.
> 
> In other words, when asking: What's first, chicken or an egg? Answer is truly: a Chick.
> 
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