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

[Menno Lageman]

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.

Menno
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