Shawn Walker 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?
As far as I know Ubuntu came to life as a Debian derivative. *After* that, others created their own Ubuntu derivatives such as Xubuntu, Kubuntu etc. So that is hardly comparable with our case. > Ah, double-standards... I fail to see double-standards here. Menno -- Menno Lageman - Sun Microsystems - http://blogs.sun.com/menno _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
