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

From: Ade Fewings (adefewings_at_gmail.com)
Date: 04/01/05 

Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:37:25 +0100

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)
>
> 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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Fri Apr 1 17:36:00 BST 2005

Nice one Rich. :-)

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