No question that a fully community-supported distribution would be the most desirable option - and that's probably what the OI pioneers had in mind as well ;-)
Oliver ________________________________________ From: Sašo Kiselkov [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2013 1:25 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] OpenIndiana roadmap On 02/19/2013 12:41 PM, "Weiergräber, Oliver H." wrote: > Moreover, providing security fixes has been a defined goal of OpenIndiana > right from the beginning. > > See the FAQ: > > Q: Will OpenIndiana provide security and bug fixes to their stable releases? > A: Yes, absolutely. We view this as one of the key missing features that > prevented widescale adoption of OpenSolaris in production environments. > > Precisely. > > I think a small fee for security fixes (on the order of, say, $50/y) would > appear quite acceptable even to private or academic OI users. It might seem like a fine idea for a business, but for me this is a deal breaker. I have lots of OI systems, some for personal use, some for business use, and all of them need security fixes. I don't want to have to pay for support on machines which generate zero revenue. Also, how do you enforce this? Will you make access to security repositories subscriber-only? And how will you manage subscriptions? How will you manage machine IDs? This necessarily forces you to close off portions of OI code, which is a dangerous path to take. My personal hopes for OI were to have something like the Debian model, where all the source code, community support and security fixes are open and free. Then, if somebody wants to provide additional expertise on top of that, be it consulting or direct commercial support (with phone calls, e-mail/chat support, remote administration, SLAs and all that jazz), be my guest. But keep the code open. If OmniOS can do it (http://omnios.omniti.com/wiki.php/ReleaseNotes), then OI can too. Cheers, -- Saso _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
