> By the way (and not directed just at you), speaking of "Sun" as a > decision-maker is unhelpful in my view. "Sun" is a legal fiction[1] > and plenty of people with divergent opinions in this community work > speak on its behalf. It is far better to name names when a decision > is concerned - they have all been taken by a living person somewhere > since legal fictions are unable to do so.
Re: Blaming Sun Microsystems for everything :) I appreciate that you don't want to be stereotyped. But you can see why it is hard for the public to understand who is responsible for what, and why they take the easy way out and blame the company you work for. One person would blame Glynn because he did the release announcement. I might blame Ian because he is getting blame from some others. But we could be totally wrong. What if someone else in the company is telling Glynn or Ian what to do?! I really don't know :( Just to have a clue about what individual to blame, I have to try to understand the corporate structure because that structure determines who has the responsibility for what. But nobody wants to try to figure all that out, and they shouldn't have to either. So we blame Sun Microsystems. I'll try to identify individuals right now though. I'm GUESSING Ian is one unknown VP away from Jonathan Schwartz. And of course Schwartz is the captain of the ship. Who decides what, I don't know though. I'll assume whole responsibility is found between the two of them. So in the case of this naming debacle, even if I identify the right individuals, there is small chain of responsibility that ends in Jonathan Schwartz doing what he thinks will make the company money. To me this puts the blame right back on "Sun Microsystems". Casting such a wide international net is correct but inaccurate. I know that while I've found the responsible party somewhere in my generalization, I've also caught you and thousands of others in my net. ..Sorry about that :) This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
