[OpenIndiana-discuss] [oi-dev] OpenSXCE/SPARC: It was a mistake to keep the site online.

[Paolo Aglialoro]

Martin,
I like ur attitude! And also understand ur pain!
U made me willing to try ur distro on SPARC. Now that the site is down
where can I download it?
The
Paolo
Il 15/set/2014 15:29 "Martin Bochnig" <martin at martux.org> ha scritto:

> Hi Aurelien,
>
>
> ok, I re-subscribed again in order to respond.
> I think you need to be reminded of some facts.
>
>
> """""> Had you become the leader of the OpenIndiana SPARC port instead
> of running OpenSXCE alone, maybe your work would have become the
> reference SPARC distribution and got more recognition.
> > More important, there would have possibly been opportunities to develop
> a paid support activity for it as you are the reference person in that
> domain or even given job opportunities.
> Thinking that by providing a binary distribution, you would create a
> community of users (with some of them willing to pay support) seems to
> be quite optimistic."""""
>
>
>
> Maybe you missed how the OI leadership treated me while I was in the
> active process of creating a first prototype of this, the initial
> SPARC OpenIndiana LiveDVD: The beloved ex-OI leader chose to drop OI,
> while not warning me of that, nor ever even attempting to contact me.
> So they kept me busily working on a project that was DeadOnArrival due
> to their decisions.
>
> Then lets take the grand Illumos leader: He told me, I'm insane and
> should stop from working on anything related to Illumos. And while I
> had proposed creating such a "Reference Distro" for them, they not
> only never responded to that proposal in any reasonable manner, but
> went on to ridicule me, refuse to just read what I wrote (namely that
> it runs also on x86/x64, not only on SPARC).
>
> Instead an Anti-SPARC flame war was taking place on the Illumos Devel
> list. And worst: All this did not happen early on in Summer of 2012,
> when I was first announcing my ideas and concrete steps to these
> lists, but _after_ in spent 6 months working on it (for free), on the
> day when I finally got it completed on Jnauary 30th 2013.
>
> Then the mainline was suddenly: Nobody wants this, nobody needs this,
> Illumos is developed by developers (in contrast to preserved by
> nostalgic hobbyists).
>
> I mention again: OpenSXCE does not only run on SPARC, but also on x86/x64.
> I probably can write this 500 times, but the mainstream will never notice
> it.
>
> All  that.
> Believe me: I'm *done* with them.
>
> Here just a single of my older Blog posts about this, with further
> links into the list archives:
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
>
> Let me repeat this 20 times:
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
> http://opensxce.blogspot.de/2013/06/unbelievable-nobody-at-oi-nor-illumos.html
>
>
>
> Google yourself for the archived messages, where Mr. Illumos told me,
> I'm an idiot incapable of achieving anything half-way worthwhile, and
> that he would never ever hire me, because I'm just too stupid.
>
> Yes, it's in the archives.
>
> So do me the favour: Let's stay in sync with reality.
> You probably also forgot, that they threw me out of the Illumos lists
> because of Madame S.'s new "no kveching rule", when I posted the true
> imperial US plans to invade Syria 12 months ago, based on the Sarine
> false flag.
>
>
> Again:  Believe me: I'm *done* with them.
> What's your next suggestion for me?
> That I shall apply for a job at the heroic US-Army??
>
>
>
> %martin bochnig
>
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