Roy Fielding quits from the Sun’s OpenSolaris Project

Roy Fielding, co-founder of the Apache HTTP Server Project has announced that he is quitting from the Sun Microsystem’s OpenSolaris Project.

He said that the company has way too much control over the project which is not helping the developers.

He added: “Sun didn’t just make vague statements to me about OpenSolaris; they made promises about it being an open development project. That’s the only way they could get someone like me to provide free labor for their benefit.”

He further said: “Sun agreed that ‘OpenSolaris’ would be governed by the community and yet has refused, in every step along the way, to cede any real control over the software produced or the way it is produced, and continues to make private decisions every day that are later promoted as decisions for this thing we call OpenSolaris.”

Terri Molini, an OpenSolaris advocacy contributor at Sun had this to say on his decision: “Open source technologies have many stakeholders and Sun is working with as many communities as possible to create an open source distribution of OpenSolaris. We recognize that we will not be able to please everyone as we move through this process and in some cases, we’ll have to agree to disagree on some points.”

Checkout: OpenSolaris

Popularity: 5% [?]