[os-infrastructure] Re: [os-engineering] Closed source components

[Daryl Monge]

On Jul 1, 2008, at 10:07 AM, Roger L. Whitcomb wrote:

> So, Alex, you're saying that Ingres Corp. would retain most of
> the authority over what gets into community main??  And based on our
> "enterprise-ready" criteria?

I can't speak for Alex ( ;-) )  but my preferred answer is yes.

Observations:
	Open Source does not imply giving up ownership and responsibility of  
the code
	There is no amorphous blob of community out there that will want big  
features we don't want

So from a pragmatic point of view, I think this is all a "tempest in a  
teapot".  We are not going to see some huge demand from the community  
to put anything but useful incremental features and bug fixes into the  
Open Source head-rev.

The Project D example is highly illustrative, but with respect to the  
"D" folks,  I do not see the real world clamoring for these types of  
projects to be integrated into the mainline.

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