John Plocher writes: > John Plocher wrote: > > Rather than creating guidelines for the effective delegation > > of authority and responsibility, we seem to be centralizing it. > > > [Sent too soon - thats what I get for composing multiple emails > at the same time] > > I meant to add the following: > Under the charter, the OGB really has no control over the non-CG > and non-Project pages. The website, the infrastructure and the > [NonCG/P] pages are (or could be claimed to be) Sun assets.
I think that's part of the dispute here. The "OpenSolaris" trademark, the opensolaris.org domain, and the infrastructure running the web site and related systems are all Sun assets. That part is true. However, does that make the contents of "index.html" also a "Sun asset" and something that only Sun can determine? I don't believe that it does. Perhaps someone who understands these matters better can advise me otherwise, but I believe that our identity as a community belongs to the community itself (and to the OGB as the community's elected representatives), and not to the entity that holds title to the hardware. > Just as in the trademark and branding discussion [which is on hold, > pending OGB action on the OpenSolaris/Indiana issue], Sun is > opening up its control of these assets and allowing the OS.o > community to provide input and suggestions. But, in the legal end, > Sun retains the ownership and control. > > Setting up an OS.o committee that pretends to take that control > from Sun (rather than trying to work with Sun) suggests that we > are either looking to force a confrontation or to set it up for > failure. I don't think either is being done here. Instead, we have a charter and a constitution that set up an "OpenSolaris community." To the extent that the OGB itself is not Sun, we need to figure out how to manage the identity of the community itself. I do not believe that this necessarily requires confrontation with Sun. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
