Re: ANN: OpenSolaris Community Advisory Board (CAB) members

From: Dennis Clarke (dclarke_at_blastwave.org)
Date: 04/01/05 

Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 09:56:50 -0500

Rich Teer wrote:

> 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)
>

I don't think that anyone will be surprised really. The effort to
merge Linux and UNIX has already begun and ports to architectures like
the PowerPC and DEC Alpha are well under way.

Dennis Clarke
Director and Admin for blastwave.org
blastwave@gmail.com

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