On 1 August 2016 at 18:14, Adrian Otto <adrian.o...@rackspace.com> wrote:
> I am struggling to understand why we would want to remove projects from > our big tent at all, as long as they are being actively developed under the > principles of "four opens". It seems to me that working to disqualify such > projects sends an alarming signal to our ecosystem. The reason we made the > big tent to begin with was to set a tone of inclusion. This whole > discussion seems like a step backward. What problem are we trying to solve, > exactly? > Any project existing in the big tent sets a significant barrier (policy, technical, mindshare) of entry to any competing project that might spring up. The cost of entry as an individual into a single-vendor project is much higher in general than a diverse one (back-channel communications, differences in vision, monoculture, commercial pressures, etc), and so having a non-diverse project in the big tent reduces the possibilities of a better replacement appearing.
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