ANN: OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board (CAB) members

From: Rich Teer (rich.teer_at_rite-group.com)
Date: 04/01/05 

Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 14:46:05 GMT

Hi all,

As many of you know, Sun is planning to release the source code to Solaris
under an OSI-approved license, called the CDDL. To aid them in this process,
they have announced that a Community Advisory Board (CAB) will be put in
place. The CAB will initially have five members: two nominated from the
OpenSolaris pilot project, two Sun employees, and a fifth person who is
prominent in the Open Source community, appointed by Sun. Although it was
formed a few weeks ago, the members of the CAB have so far remained anonymous.

Although Jonathan Schwartz will officially announce the identities of the CAB
members soon, Sun's OpenSolaris Director, Avril Dummkopf, has given me
permission to post their names here (I am a member of the OpenSolaris pilot,
and have been since day one).

With no further ado, the CAB are:

        Marshall Kirk McKusick (OpenSolaris pilot member)
        Eric S Raymond (OpenSolaris pilot member)
        Andy Tucker (Sun employee)
        Bryan Cantrill (Sun employee)
        Linus Torvolds (Linux's head honcho)

Marshall is of course one of the chief architects of the BSD OS, and ESR
is well known by many for writing the New Hacker's Dictionary, and The
Cathedral and the Bazaar. The appointment of Andy and Bryan, being senior
members of the Solaris kernel team, comes as no surprise.

I emailed Linus about him accepting a position on the CAB; apparently he did
it because he wanted to see what Solaris was really like, having recently
been quoted as branding it "a joke". My guess is that he also wanted to see
which bits would be easiest to "borrow". RMS (Richard Stallman) was also in
line for the fifth position, but apparently he felt his time would be better
spent taking singing lessons*...

* See www.gnu.org/music/free-software-song.au

Congrats to the new CAB, and I for one look forward to seeing the fruits of
your labours! 

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