[illumos-Discuss] gdamore wishes he knew what would motivate more developers to work on illumos bugs....

[Jasse Jansson]

On 12/ 2/10 04:45 PM, Gleb Kursou wrote:
>> Really?  Educate me: what other forks are out there?
>
> We get the forks: The German Research Foundation will have it's
> Illumos fork for pNFS development, the university of Utrecht will fork
> Illumos for mobile devices, the Free University of Berlin will fork
> Illumos as general purpose OS and Joerg Schily will fork Illumos, too.
> I don't care about Mr. Schily but already three *major* organisations,
> potent and wealthy, decided to fork Illumos because they do not see a
> point in a cooperation with the current Illumos organization.
> This is *bad*.

Competition is good, at least for the customer (in this case: the end 
users).