What Communities Should Do (And What They Shouldn't)
Ever since Oracle announced that they’ll buy Sun (no link, page no longer exists), there has been a lot of discussion about the future (some would say “fate”) of OpenSolaris in the “community”.
In fact, the last 15 months have been very instructive in terms of how communities work, or how they don’t.
Let’s check out what a community is supposed to do, and what it is not supposed to do, in the light of the latest OpenSolaris announcement: Illumos.