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

[Menno Lageman]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 01/11/2007, Menno Lageman <Menno.Lageman 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.
> 
> Should we accuse Ubuntu.com of taking possession of the name since
> they don't list the other Ubuntu-based distros on their homepage?

As far as I know Ubuntu came to life as a Debian derivative. *After* 
that, others created their own Ubuntu derivatives such as Xubuntu, 
Kubuntu etc. So that is hardly comparable with our case.

> Ah, double-standards...

I fail to see double-standards here.

Menno
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