Hello Mr Dan Frye,
My name is Ben Rockwood, I’m a member of the OpenSolaris community. Perhaps you’ve never heard of me because you’ve never actually looked at the OpenSolaris project, but thats understandable. Except, actually, it isn’t. You’ve been saying some things lately that are, as my wife noted this evening: “blatantly ignorant”. Indeed. You’re making the same mistake that Mr. Martin Fink of HP made, shooting your big fat mouth off without looking before doing so. Lets recap the popular comment of the week:
“Sun holds it all behind the firewall. The community sees nothing,” Dan Frye, the IBM vice president who runs the company’s Linux Technology Center, said Tuesday in an interview at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo. “It’s a facade. There’s lots of marketing, but no community to speak of.”
Talking out your ass is bad for your health.
Sun doesn’t hold “it all behind the firewall”. The primary source tree is internal at this time, but thats because we haven’t finished bringing it outside yet. Doing this is a long process because all Sun engineers will be contributing to the external code repository in the future and thats a major change for everyone and that sort of massive change takes time. Notice I say “we”, although I don’t work for Sun, I’m a member of the community, and still I say we because I want this transition done right, not some rush job to shut up whining VP’s looking for attension like yourself. When we’re ready, we’ll have it open. In the meantime we get ample access to the source, we have setup up Subversion repositories in the short term, and no one has had problems staying up to date.
“The community sees nothing.” What? How on earth would you know that? Did you ask around? Did you explore? See nothing? We see everything. In fact, I’ll admit to you the one thing in the last 2 years that the community was unaware of, and that was an OpenSolaris dinner held by Tom Goguen of Sun for some choice customers. Short of that we’ve been involve in every single decision made and in many cases we drove things.
“There’s lots of marketing, but no community to speak of.” Ummm… Hi! I’m a member of the community. Look at my blog roll, there are a couple dozen more, visit PlanetSolaris.org for some more, view the dozens of mailing lists at OpenSolaris.org, join our IRC channel, #opensolaris, on FreeNode where we always have more than 150 people around the clock. We have a thriving community. Since day 1 we’ve had more community members that IBM has AIX customers. I’ll put our community against any others out there.
Solaris/SunOS has attracted a huge following over the last 20 years and that long standing community, a community that pre-dated OpenSolaris even, jumped on OpenSolaris from the start because we’re now embraced by Sun, an active part of the development of our beloved OS, and able to better organize ourselves that we did prior. While IBM snubs its customers and looks for new ways to bleed them, Sun is embracing its community of developers, admins, authors, enthusiasts, and on and on and on.
I’d also like to point something out… this “marketing” of which you speak. Have you bothered to take a look at it? Please visit the OpenSolaris-Marketing Community. We, the community, are part of the marketing group! We’re working hand-in-hand with wonderful people at Sun to get the job done, and so I’m glad that you believe our marketing is so effective… its this effective because REAL PEOPLE ARE BEHIND IT!!!
You know, Dan, I looked for you at LinuxWorld all day and couldn’t seem to find you! I asked around, talked with many of your yellow shirted IBM people, I left a note for you even. I even tried to find you after your talk but apparently it was so boring that you left early because the room was empty when I arrive prior to the 11:15 end of the session. All day apparently you around bashing folks but not talking with people at the show. Its a shame. If you just take the time to actually walk around the show floor you’d have seen the buzz in the .Org pavilion about OpenSolaris and seen us up close and personal. But I know how important you are as a big IBM VP guy, bringing yourself down to the developer area of the show would probly give you some type of cold or something. Better to stay on that cloud of yours.
So I’m really sorry I couldn’t have met you today Dan, I wanted so much to say hello. Thanks for being a gutless coward taking potshots at a project at which you expect no response. You know that Sun is trying to find a tactful way to respond to you guys, but I’ll just call you out for what you are, since I don’t answer to Sun. So go work on POWER, continue pushing Linux on the mainframe, and thanks for the work you’ve done on Xen, which is actually useful. But before you open your trap and start spewing FUD, do your homework so that little blogger guys like me can’t write such condicending open letters like this about you in the future.
Feel free to mail or call me so that I may help educate you in the future.
Ben Rockwood benr (at) cuddletech.com OpenSolaris Community Member
I am a farly new Cuddletech Blog reader (I work at BlueArc and started checking regularly after Ben visited us and did a great write-up about his visit here).
I do inside sales so many of the blogs are too technical for me (but I’m learning), but this one was great! I appreciated Ben’s passion, sarcasm, and loyalty.
I really hope this IBM guy reads this too. Someone who knows his email address should email him the link to it.
Brilliant, Ben. I think you nailed it.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. You need the official title of “Attack Enthusiast”
You were sounding somehwat ok until you said somthing stupid:
Since day 1 we’ve had more community members that IBM has AIX customers. I’ll put our community against any others out there.
So.. you’ve proven you are a buffoon. Congrats!!
You are JUST as big a liar.. (and likely much, much BIGGER) than IBM.
You ruined my day. Anyone else want to take a crack at writing a sensible reply to IBM? Try to write only truthful statements instead of just being plain belligerent. I think it’s easy to see why nobody at IBM would talk to you. It’s pretty apparent that you only want to have a one sided discussion (where you are always right of course!).
IBM does need some education about OpenSolaris… just not this embarrassing junk.
Chris: On what grounds am I wrong? I stand by what I wrote. For, literally, decades Solaris admins, developers, and architects have asked for, indeed demanded, access ot the Solaris codebase to assist in their day-to-day jobs. OpenSolaris facilitates that. Because OpenSolaris isn’t divergant from the Solaris code-base this means that every Solaris administrator, developer, and even user, is a member of the community.
This is perhaps where OpenSolaris is really unique compared to other efforts… we didn’t start from scratch. Thats why we had such a massive outpouring of support on day 1. Now when people have problems with Solaris, even older releases, they can come to opensolaris.org and find answers. Because of Solaris’s rock hard stability people who are still using Solaris 2.6 can still benifit hugely from whats available in OpenSolaris.
Lets say, for instance, that AIX was by some strange drug induced reason to become open, the community would be pre-seeded with AIX users, developers and admin. But most projects and efforts these days aren’t things that have existed for decades or long-term “proprietary” products going open, they are brand new projects in which almost everyone is fresh to the project and thus building out that community is long and slow.
Your going to see the same thing around Java when it goes open source. Every Java developer will be a member of that community on day one. And the fact is, they are members of that community now, before the fact, they just don’t think of themselves perhaps in that light.
So, I’m sorry you didn’t like that line, but I stand behind it 100%. I’m sorry I ruined your day but maybe you’ll watch a little Stargate tonight and chill a bit.
email him: http://www.ibm.com/contact/employees/us/
Chris “I luv a blathering VP” Cox is a bonehead who clearly doesn’t get a little thing called sarcasm. “…more community members that IBM has AIX customers…” is simply genius hilarious! I’m sure Chris would much prefer that someone send roses to the idiot Frye.
Go Ben!
Well that was fanatic, thats for sure. Dan Frye just pointed out that your community is small by numbers and it hasn’t contributed that many code snipplets in it’s first year, and he stands correct. You may feel that your community is best on earth (common thing i assume) but there is no point in making ass out of yourself by raging like that to a corporate person who speaks for his company belittling their competition. To put it simple, don’t let your bias glow out like that if you want to be taken seriously.
Dude, I am so glad you are on our side! It sucks to hear people blabber on on how Sun is “dying” and how Sun “lost the race against Linux”.
Thanks for writing that entry. It is refreshing to hear that I am not the only one that feels that way. . .
For Tero,
Ben was showing that he has feeling. We all do. I got your points that emotional reply is not necessary in corporate world. However, comments like that from a VP shows a much lower intelligence (I expect a teenage boy to make such comment, not a VP). The VP truly deserves the comments, and hopefully he will stop making such baseless comments in future. I’d love a technical comparison between AIX 5.3 and Solaris 10 instead.
Total hatchet job. You sound polarised and belligerent and utterly immature.
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Very interesting article: “Dan Frye: An Open Letter to IBM’s Gutless Coward”
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