Re: PPlaris, the Opensolaris fork (was: Re: Kill PPC port? (was: Re: [powerpc-discuss

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Stephen Lau <stevelsun.com> wrote:
> 
>>> PS: Thank you, Sun, for forcing us to fork your
own project. Thank you
>> Sun did no such thing.
>>
>> You can not force a person to do anything they
either can't or won't do. 
>>    You can't force Sun to contribute work any more
than Sun can force 
>> you to.  If Sun isn't contributing work to the
PowerPC effort, fine, 
>> there is no stopping you from doing work on
opensolaris.org without Sun. 
>>   There are plenty of projects (including platform
ports) going on that 
>> aren't involving Sun in any way.
> 
> Looks like you missunderstand the problem:
> 
> The fact that there was a promise from some people from
Sun to contribute,
> people outside Sun did wait for this to happen. After
giving up that hope,
> the ppc porting project may proceed again.

Where or not Sun failed to deliver on that promise does not
"force" 
someone to fork.  There is no need to create a dependency on
what Sun 
promises to do.  You can give up waiting and continue the
work on your 
own within the current project realms.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to forking.  If people
want to work 
on the project somewhere else under another umbrella, that
is 
*completely fine* with me.  Just don't blame others for it.

cheers,
steve

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