On Nov 1, 2007 11:31 AM, John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OpenSource efforts are invariably meritocracies. > > Those that /do/, lead. > > Ian and the OpenSolaris Project are out there /doing/.
Indeed. And they are to be applauded for doing so. Where it falls down is the usurping of the OpenSolaris name. As you say, it''s a meritocracy. And any distribution becomes *the* reference distribution by merit, not by executive fiat. > They > chartered a Project to do this, found several CGs to endorse > their vision, Endorse? The Indiana project was mired in controversy from the start, partially because it was railroaded through, and partially because of concerns (that seem to have been well founded) that it would try and claim precedence over community-derived distributions. As one f the Core Contributors who approved Indiana, I did so because the project could do a great deal of good, not because I necessarily agreed with everything they wanted to do and certainly not the way in which things have been done. > and have just delivered the first distro built > by the community out of the community's source code. Come now. That belittles schillix, belenix, and martux. And built by the community is a bit of a stretch. Certainly not the whole community, and not even in full view of the community and with full transparency in actions and decision making. I'm writing this from inside the live CD booted on my home system. If I think about running a distribution called Indiana, then it's a fine example of what can be done. If I think of it as the reference OpenSolaris distro and the future direction of OpenSolaris (and thus Solaris proper) then I get really really worried. It's not the product; it's the positioning and rhetoric that are coming from some quarters that worry me. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
