On 01/11/2007, Menno Lageman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
Should we accuse Ubuntu.com of taking possession of the name since they don't list the other Ubuntu-based distros on their homepage? Is Mark Shuttleworth evil for making decisions about Ubuntu without consulting the community? Ah, double-standards... -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
