On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 09:17:10PM +0000, Alan Burlison wrote: > When it is probably too late. Where have you all been for the last N > months?
Alan, I've been making clear that I believe this is a problem ever since the original Indiana Project proposal[0]. The conclusion from this was that the project would proceed with the goal of creating a distribution, which is not now and has never been controversial. The project proceeded based on the expectation that this issue would be revisited at a later time if desired. I took Glynn's final response[1] in that thread to be acceptance of that general strategy. Perhaps I was mistaken or perhaps the project team was just being passive-aggressive. But to say that we've been ignorant of the problem is inaccurate; in reality we've consistently expressed concerns and the project team, with the winds of Sun's blessing and powers under trademark law filling their sails, have simply disregarded them. Because we have no desire or authority to prevent anyone from doing whatever work they like, there has not been anything for OGB members to do other than express their individual reservations and offer guidance about how the project team might in the future choose to pursue its goals successfully within the OpenSolaris framework. If the project team were content to be known as Indiana or some other name that does not imply the community's exclusive endorsement without our consent, the entire controversy would evaporate very quickly. [0] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/001622.html http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/001740.html [1] http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/2007-May/001712.html -- Keith M Wesolowski "Sir, we're surrounded!" FishWorks "Excellent; we can attack in any direction!" _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
