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

[Brandorr]

On 11/1/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> 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?
>
> Is Mark Shuttleworth evil for making decisions about Ubuntu without
> consulting the community?

Arguably, Ubuntu is either a "Linux distro", or a "DebianLinux
distro". In either case, a new name was chosen for the distro. Ubuntu
is not known as simply "Linux" or simply "DebianLinux", so you analogy
is flawed in my opinion.

> Ah, double-standards...
>
> --
> Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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>
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