Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up extraordinarily early, Thorsten & boys kindly gave a lift to the bus station, bus, plane, train. Hacked unit testage some more, further investigation of vtreloc details - an impressively quadratic tail-off in the number of unique named relocations (bindings) in various different libraries. Found some interesting oddities in configmgr symbol exposure.
Bruce picked me up, home, slept. Up, dealt with the children while J. took H. swimming, tried to attend a staff meeting in parallel with little success, bother.
Heated up dinner, fed babes, bathed, read stories to etc. babes, put them to bed. Back to mail, bugzilla etc. Looks like a fascinating new development from Microsoft, and a coup for the lads in the Interop. group there. Of course, there seems to be a few 'Z's missing from RAND, but I look forward to seeing more detail.
And the plaudits keep coming: Roy Fielding resigns from OpenSolaris - as someone who really enjoyed working with Sun for a long time, and is mostly saddened by the huge opportunity they are peeing away here, this is a shame, again a medly of excerpting (emphasis mine):
Sun didn't just make vague statements to me about OpenSolaris; they made promises about it being an open development project. That's the only way they could get someone like me to provide free labor for their benefit. Given Sun's recent track record on breaking promises, another one doesn't surprise me at all. ... Sun gave up its right to make arbitrary decisions regarding the phrase "OpenSolaris" as part of its public agreement with the community in the form of the Charter. ... Sun agreed that "OpenSolaris" would be governed by the community and yet has refused, in every step along the way, to cede any real control over the software produced or the way it is produced, ... Rather than be honest about it and restructure the community to correspond to this MySolaris style of over-the-wall development, Sun prefers to lie to the external community members while ignoring their input. Yes, Sun has the legal right to make that decision, just as it has a legal right to dissolve the charter and start over with a new governance model. The choices being made are NOT the problem. The problem is the way that the choices are being made WHILE, at the same time, portraying the project in public as a community-driven effort. ... Sun should move on, dissolve the charter that it currently ignores, and adopt the governing style of MySQL.
Of course - the MySQL comparison (and it's famous 'model') is completely irrelevant to OpenSolaris, as can be understood by a trivial inspection of who pays their revenue, but perhaps more of that tomorrow: briefly, the MySQL model kills external community contribution, but can bring in cash (if it works, and therein lies the hitch).

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2008-02-21: Thursday