Hi guys, I'm a middle manager at Sun. I figured you wouldn't know I'm out here if I didn't speak up, so here I go. I manage the globalization team in Beijing and lots of people in my team contribute to OpenSolaris. I read every single posting on this forum.
- melanie Ché Kristo wrote: >> Shawn Walker wrote: >> >> http://directorymanager.wordpress.com/2007/11/28/an-op >> en-letter-to-the-opends-community-and-to-sun-microsyst >> ems/ >> >> You know, I'm wondering why you chose to write that >> subject line, Shawn. >> There are no middle managers here on these lists. >> There are only project >> managers who are directly involved in OpenSolaris and >> engineers of one >> sort or another trying to do a difficult job on both >> sides of the >> firewall. How do you expect us Sun employees to react >> to mail like this? >> Do you think we will all just pile on? Should we just >> ignore it? Do you >> think we know the inside story and are keeping it >> from you? We don't, by >> the way. >> >> Don't you guys realize that this is the single most >> effective way of >> decreasing your credibility while at the same time >> decreasing the >> participation of the very people you need to be >> interacting with? This >> is so disappointing. >> >> Jim >> -- >> Jim Grisanzio http://blogs.sun.com/jimgris >> _______________________________________________ >> opensolaris-discuss mailing list >> opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org >> > > Jim, it's not often that I disagree with your insights but on this I find > myself firmly in opposition. Let's be realistic here, Sun of late has been > acting like a benevolent dictator within this community. So many decisions > have been made with little to no consultation or involvement with the > community. There have been numerous times where Sun has either forced it's > will upon the community, kept the community in the dark or outright abandoned > projects with little to no communication. Sun has broken it's social contract > in this and other communities. > > If you think that posts such as Shawn's are disappointing then i am truly > disappointed. Dissent is healthy - where would the world be without those who > bravely speak against injustice. Are you disappointed with Bonhoeffer, > Wilberforce or Gandhi? > > Shawn is not sending this out because he wants Sun employees to feel lesser, > he is not trying to send this community down a spiral of chaos - what he is > trying to do is help this community realize and address it's faults. > Particularly Sun and the way it interacts with the community. > > And as for the poor excuse that no middle managers read these forums - let's > just hope that the community kicks up enough of a stink that they do sit up > and listen. > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
