On Fri, 18 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sure, but the problem with that is that the majority of the community and
OGB is Sun employees. Sun can use their power to pay people to work on
OpenSolaris, which is good, but it can also swing the scales in their
favor.
Why is this a problem? I see this as a natural initial state of the
OpenSolaris project; Sun is the major stakeholder, Sun employees are
the main contributors.
There is nothing in the constitution that gives Sun the ultimate power;
and that is what matters.
Casper,
I agree that it's the natural initial state, and after all, it was Sun who
did most all of the work on OpenSolaris, or more specific the engineers
that work(ed) for them. I firmly believe they're the ones that need to
control/govern it, the ones that did the work on it and brought it to
where it is.
As long as the OGB can govern over the communities and make sure that
there aren't situations as pointed out above, where Sun can swing the
scales in their favor, then no problem.
I only pointed that out because it does exist, and can happen.
Having so much of Sun marketing involved in it seems to imply that
OpenSolaris could be influenced in how Sun prefers to brand things. I
obviously don't agree with the whole "let's market OpenSolaris" bandwagon,
nor do some of the other people in the community.
--
Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group
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