>No.... 3rd parties do not have to be private. If they do, they can go >elsewhere. OPENsolaris. OPEN source. OPEN! We can't do things >otherwise, and if we do we are doomed to be a sham. CLOSEDsolaris is >dead, OPENsolaris is the future.
I think you're sorely mistaken. There will always be 3rd parties who want to ask for guidance about Open sourcing but who will INSIST on having control over the timing the public announcement. Often it's not the information itself but the timing of its release. What will happen when there's no OGB private is this: people will start to ask such questions of individual OGB members and there will be no institutional memory of such conversations. Private communications are needed and they will find a way to happen; I prefer to have them tagged, labeled and archived (medium term), rather than send to my inbox directly. Casper
