[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Democracy and open source - nit - Re: Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Shawn Walker]

On 01/11/2007, Casper.Dik at sun.com <Casper.Dik at sun.com> wrote:
>
> >John Plocher wrote:
> >> Brian Gupta wrote:
> >>> In other words, Ian seems to have decided that democracy is a bad way
> >>> to run an open source project, and wants to install himself as
> >>> "benevolent dictator".
> >>
> >> OpenSource efforts are invariably meritocracies.
> >>
> >> Those that /do/, lead.
> >>
> >> Ian and the OpenSolaris Project are out there /doing/.  They
> >> chartered a Project to do this, found several CGs to endorse
> >> their vision, and have just delivered the first distro built
> >> by the community out of the community's source code.
> >
> >I don't mind them /doing/. In fact, having just tried the LiveCD on a
> >recent laptop, I'm fairly impressed with their product. What I object to
> >is the fact that the *project* Indiana seems to have unilaterally taken
> >possession of the name OpenSolaris, and even the homepage of
> >opensolaris.org as if there weren't any other OpenSolaris distributions.
>
> It's also a falacy to claim that the other distributions were not built
> by the community.

I haven't seen that claim anywhere. Can you provide me with a link?

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