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

[Casper.Dik at Sun.COM]

>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.

Casper