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List:       opensolaris-discuss
Subject:    Re: [osol-discuss] Oracle shuts down open source test servers
From:       Simon Phipps <webmink () opensolaris ! org>
Date:       2010-07-30 18:10:42
Message-ID: FDF7ABC0-7147-44A4-878B-991E7DC11B6C () opensolaris ! org
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On Jul 30, 2010, at 16:09, Edward Ned Harvey wrote:

> If you "jump ship" to a community
> OS, aren't you leaving behind all the contributions that are made by the
> paid employees? 

No, that's not a given. It is entirely possible to run a downstream community that \
maintains a derivative that includes all the changes being released in the upstream \
project while adding additional or modified goodness, upstreaming changes where \
possible but otherwise remaining distinct. This is essentially what Ubuntu does to \
Debian, for example.  The options open to the OpenSolaris community are far more \
nuanced than the gloomy outcomes I've seen described on this list.

S.

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