except that they /are/ ubuntu, whereas it's derivatives latched on after the fact.
If Ubuntu started calling itself simply "Linux", you better believe that Linus would be suing canonical like there's no tomorrow. On 11/1/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 > -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
