joerg.schill...@fokus.fraunhofer.de wrote:
> The problem is that Sun/Oracle did already fork and changed things without
> asking the comunity whether this to be accepted by the community.
That's not forking, that's just Sun controlling the project as they always
did - there's still just one source tree and the same basic groups working
on it. The community never had a choice of accepting or denying Sun's work.
The original constitution may have mistakenly given the illusion that it
could, but in practice, we all knew that wasn't true. The community could
never say "Sorry Sun, we know you spent millions developing, testing and
integrating ZFS, but we want ext3fs instead, so you can't integrate it."
or "Sun, we've decided GNOME sucks, and you need to ship KDE instead - reassign
your dozens of GNOME engineers and throw out the 10 years of work you've done
on GNOME and make it happen."
If this wasn't clear from the beginning, the initial round of Project Indiana
battles should have made this plainly obvious to everyone involved - only Sun
had final decision making authority on any technical decisions involving the
code bases they controlled - the community could advise and participate in
discussions, but not veto or overrule.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersm...@oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window System
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