Saturday June 26, 2004

Comments and more

Thanks for all the comments. We're working on fixing the formatting issue - apparently we can enable "autoformat", which converts line feeds to HTML line breaks, but it needs to be set site-wide. If you have long comments, you can always send them by email to first.last@sun.com (replacing "first" and "last" with my name, obviously). Be sure to include whether I can post your comments or should keep them private, and whether I should use your name if I post them.

Alan Hargreaves suggests creating a BigAdmin forum for open source discussions, rather than using blogs. I think the general idea of a discussion forum is a good one, but BigAdmin doesn't really seem like the right place; it's more for technical discussions about specific technologies. In any case, lacking a good alternative, I'd like to use this blog as a medium for communicating (both ways) outside of "official" channels. Obviously, when the open source project goes live (perhaps earlier) we'll have discussion forums, mailing lists, etc.. (IRC, anyone?)

Alan also points out an article about open source Solaris in Fortune, discussing a letter the author received from Jonathan Schwartz. The text of the letter is included, and may be of interest to those wondering why we think this is a good idea for Sun, as opposed to the community.