[OmniOS-discuss] illumos and contributions metrics: how to evaluate companies that commercialize illumos based products by examining them in the light of their illumos community's contributions.

[Davide Poletto]

Thanks Dan and Linda for your answers (thanks Linda for the useful link!):
mine was just sane curiosity and, probably, not a real/relevant problem, at
least, nothing blocking my evaluating activity...it's just like a slow bee
flying around my head...especially considering that, as Dan said, community
member's energy is used to keep the "machinery" running and in good health!

Kind regards, Davide.

P.S. slightly OT:
I can't understand the consequences of Dan's statement: "Making things MORE
complicated is that "illumos" as a brand is still tightly tied up by its
owner."...what does it mean?

On Mon, Dec 7, 2015 at 5:13 PM, Linda Kateley <lkateley at kateley.com> wrote:

> Blackduck does this for you.
>
> https://www.openhub.net/p?ref=homepage&query=illumos
>
>
> On 12/7/15 7:44 AM, Dan McDonald wrote:
>
>> On Dec 7, 2015, at 8:13 AM, Davide Poletto <davide.poletto at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is there a way to rank/evaluate and so reward/honour (by, as example,
>>> purchasing their products or by sustaining their development as
>>> testers/free-time contributors) those {individuals, companies,
>>> institutions} that clearly demonstrate not only to have good numbers
>>> (commits) but also that they care about the community and that are more
>>> transparent than others in advertising their commercial offer's origin?
>>>
>> That's a damned good question.  It's also very tricky.
>>
>> Some firms keep things closed until they've released, or after some time
>> after they've released.  Some find this fair enough, others find it
>> annoying.  Because people are different, it may be hard to get a consensus
>> on how to rank/evaluate firms the way you wish.  BTW, I lean toward "fair
>> enough" so long as there's consistency and not going back on one's word.
>> Keeping to one's word is important to me.  I didn't leave Oracle because
>> of the Solaris-closing: if you read the text of that leaked email, it
>> implied a source-dump-on-release model. Only after I left Oracle did it
>> become clear that it was all a big lie.
>>
>> You're chasing a hard problem.  You may not get much sympathy.  Making
>> things MORE complicated is that "illumos" as a brand is still tightly tied
>> up by its owner. Many feel that it's tied up too tightly, and that is why
>> you rarely see "illumos" mentioned in marketing materials, especially not
>> the trademarked symbol.
>>
>> I'm sorry I don't have better answers for you right now.  It's a hard
>> problem, and many of us who might be able to help clarify things are trying
>> to keep all of the machinery moving as smoothly as we can.
>>
>> Dan
>>
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