>John Plocher wrote: >> Brian Gupta wrote: >>> In other words, Ian seems to have decided that democracy is a bad way >>> to run an open source project, and wants to install himself as >>> "benevolent dictator". >> >> OpenSource efforts are invariably meritocracies. >> >> Those that /do/, lead. >> >> Ian and the OpenSolaris Project are out there /doing/. They >> chartered a Project to do this, found several CGs to endorse >> their vision, and have just delivered the first distro built >> by the community out of the community's source code. > >I don't mind them /doing/. In fact, having just tried the LiveCD on a >recent laptop, I'm fairly impressed with their product. What I object to >is the fact that the *project* Indiana seems to have unilaterally taken >possession of the name OpenSolaris, and even the homepage of >opensolaris.org as if there weren't any other OpenSolaris distributions.
It's also a falacy to claim that the other distributions were not built by the community. Casper _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
