On Sep 4, 2006, at 22:13, James C. McPherson wrote:
Simon Phipps wrote:
On Sep 4, 2006, at 19:54, Dennis Clarke wrote:
It would be a critical mistake to underestimate her knowledge on
the CDDL
issues.
Nonetheless she is wrong to characterise the opinion of the
Solaris engineering team in the way she does. She is speaking this
way because she lost an argument inside Sun, not because her view
is representative of the views of Sun or its staff in the way she
claims. She, along with many actual engineers, was an advocate of
using GPL for OpenSolaris but the need to release rather than wait
for one of {GPL v3, Mozilla license revision, encumbrance removal}
meant that this was not possible. I am still furious with her for
the statement she made at DebConf, which was spiteful and an
obstacle to a united FOSS movement.
Simon, are you going to make a statement / write an open letter
to her etc which will set things straight?
I'm considering blogging it but the statement I just made is public.
S.
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