>> But aren't you a politician by profession? Is this a trick? > > > What I mean is that although we use the language of governance (elections, > voting, constitution, etc) that doesn't mean we have to act like politicians > and create too many rules in order to function. We can function quite well > by just talking to each other and working on projects. That's all. No trick. > :) Just a difference of opinion. > > Best, > > Jim > > -- > http://twitter.com/jimgris
Ok, accepted, because I know you in person and from time to time have a look at your blog and twitter. (Although not everybody at SMI might be as genuine as you, but "those" probably do not even bother to post this [nor any other public] alias.) I simply think that questions like IPS vs. conary or Gnome vs. KDE should be solved via a referendum. For what else do we actually have a constitution, otherwise? (In case of conary facts have been created by SMI, so by now it is of course much too late for such a poll.) Having a constitution that allows us to accept or refuse it (that very constitution) is already quite nice. But why didn't it prevent us from mono-lateral decision-making and finished_facts_creation like in case of the pkgadd-successor? Was there any poll about it? Or at least any genuine interest by SMI to give conary a small (but real!) chance? The package management is one of the core factors of an OS distro. What about the old Saga reference-distro vs. Belenix vs. Schillix vs. Nexenta vs. Indiana? Why was it required to buy Mr. Ian Murdock. Wouldn't it have been better to make a referendum about it and give the winning Distro the technical (and some strategic/political) leadership? Sun spent $$$ for Mr. Debian. At the same time cloned Belenix and re-branded it as Ian Murdock's fantastic fruit "Indiana": http://blogs.sun.com/moinakg/resource/indiana_arch.png . Then Sun lost Moinak to the competition, which is more than understandable. :-(( It is a pity for Sun, a pity for the community and a drawback for the project. Feel free to correct me, in case I am wrong. Best, Martin
