[OT] Tact (Was: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog)

[OT] Tact (Was: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog)

[Eric Boutilier]

My 2 cents: It's always bad to bash other people (get personal) in
public forums, and Joerg certainly has done that. But this statement is
just yet another occurrence IMO:

On Fri May 20 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> ...
> ... OpenSolaris developers sit around and flame Linux developers
> instead of coding...

So for what it's worth, I just wanted to respond and say that I'd be
more than happy to engage people in a tactful discussion about
opensolaris -- either here, some other list, off-list, or whatever --
as would, I'm sure, any of the more official opensolaris ambassadors,
see:  http://opensolaris.org/cab.

Eric

P.S. In case this helps, AFAICT Joerg is not selective. I've seen him
also dis Sun Solaris engineers on more than one occasion, the most
recent incident occurring just a few days ago on the opensolaris pilot
mailing list.

--
Eric Boutilier
Program Manager, Open Source Software
Sun Microsystems
eric.boutilier@sun.com

Re: [OT] Tact (Was: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog)

[Patrick McFarland]

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On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:40 am, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> So for what it's worth, I just wanted to respond and say that I'd be
> more than happy to engage people in a tactful discussion about
> opensolaris -- either here, some other list, off-list, or whatever --
> as would, I'm sure, any of the more official opensolaris ambassadors,
> see:  http://opensolaris.org/cab.

I didn't even know there were any other developers besides Schilly and his 
SchillyX crew. I appologize to all of the real OpenSolaris developers.

> Eric
>
> P.S. In case this helps, AFAICT Joerg is not selective. I've seen him
> also dis Sun Solaris engineers on more than one occasion, the most
> recent incident occurring just a few days ago on the opensolaris pilot
> mailing list.

If he hates Linux and OpenSolaris and BSD, what does he use? Windows? I mean, 
that /would/ explain a few things.

-- 
Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
"Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd 
all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

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Re: [OT] Tact (Was: [OT] Joerg Schilling flames Linux on his Blog)

[Antonio Vargas]

On 5/22/05, Patrick McFarland <pmcfarland@downeast.net> wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:40 am, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> > So for what it's worth, I just wanted to respond and say that I'd be
> > more than happy to engage people in a tactful discussion about
> > opensolaris -- either here, some other list, off-list, or whatever --
> > as would, I'm sure, any of the more official opensolaris ambassadors,
> > see:  http://opensolaris.org/cab.
> 
> I didn't even know there were any other developers besides Schilly and his
> SchillyX crew. I appologize to all of the real OpenSolaris developers.
> 
> > Eric
> >
> > P.S. In case this helps, AFAICT Joerg is not selective. I've seen him
> > also dis Sun Solaris engineers on more than one occasion, the most
> > recent incident occurring just a few days ago on the opensolaris pilot
> > mailing list.
> 
> If he hates Linux and OpenSolaris and BSD, what does he use? Windows? I mean,
> that /would/ explain a few things.

Maybe he uses AmigaOS

*ducks*

> --
> Patrick "Diablo-D3" McFarland || pmcfarland@downeast.net
> "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd
> all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to
> repetitive electronic music." -- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989
> 
> 
> 


-- 
Greetz, Antonio Vargas aka winden of network

http://wind.codepixel.com/

Las cosas no son lo que parecen, excepto cuando parecen lo que si son.

Re: [OT] Tact

[Eric Boutilier]

I hope it's OK to continue an off-topic thread like this...

On Sun, 22 May 2005, Patrick McFarland wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 11:40 am, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> > ...
> > So for what it's worth, I just wanted to respond and say that I'd be
> > more than happy to engage people in a tactful discussion about
> > opensolaris -- either here, some other list, off-list, or whatever --
> > as would, I'm sure, any of the more official opensolaris ambassadors,
> > see:  http://opensolaris.org/cab.
> >
>
> I didn't even know there were any other developers besides...

Actually the other developers of OpenSolaris, primarily, are all the
developers on the Solaris engineering teams. The reason being, under
the new Solaris/Opensolaris model, in order for a Sun developer to put
code into regular Solaris (the Solaris that Sun ships), he/she will
have to put it into Opensolaris first. In other words, Solaris is
becoming a distro, so to speak, of OpenSolaris. And Solaris engineering
is already well down the path to making this happen.

The problem is, I don't think we (Sun) have been doing a great job of
communicating to the world what Opensolaris is exactly, so a lot of
people seem to think the same thing you did -- that the OpenSolaris
development process is a separate thing.

Eric


> Schilly and his SchillyX crew. I appologize to all of the real
> OpenSolaris developers.
>
> > P.S. In case this helps, AFAICT Joerg is not selective. I've seen him
> > also dis Sun Solaris engineers on more than one  occasion, the most
> > recent incident occurring just a few days ago on the opensolaris pilot
> > mailing list.
>
> If he hates Linux and OpenSolaris and BSD, what does he
> use? Windows? I mean, that /would/ explain a few things.