On Nov 1, 2007, at 7:14 PM, Ian Murdock wrote: > You have to be joking? I don't even know where to begin.. This is > like Robert's Rules of Order run amok.. Is anyone here interested > in building an operating system? -ian
Sun already has an operating system. What it doesn't have is engaged development from the wider community outside Sun. That was, and is, the entire reason for OpenSolaris. You are coming to this party a bit late, with a whole bunch of preconceived notions about turning OpenSolaris into a distribution in the same way that you turned Linux into a distribution with Debian. That's a fine goal to have. But the decision was already made that OpenSolaris would not be governed by benevolent dictators, so you either have to do the work necessary to overturn that decision first or you have to find a way to work within an open development community that makes decisions in a rather democratic way, even if you are not personally fond of that model. As one of the founders of the Apache Group, I can assure you that the OpenSolaris Constitution's model of governance will work to achieve open development if and only if it is applied as described in Article VIII -- by making all decisions in public with open discussion and voting when disagreement is apparent. If not, then you are wasting everyone else's time with unfulfilled expectations of open development, and we would all get along better with a constitution that reflects the reality of Sun's choice of a benevolent dictator, even when the dictator changes persona on a quarterly basis. Many developers are happy to work for Sun. ....Roy
