[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Simon Phipps]

On Oct 31, 2007, at 21:57, Alan Burlison wrote:

> Simon Phipps wrote:
>
>> Framing OpenSolaris as a republic, constitutional monarchy or  
>> other political system doesn't help much in my view.  This is an  
>> open source community. The way it works is people do stuff  
>> collectively together, rapidly iterating a solution to the problem  
>> they collectively have chosen to address, regardless of their  
>> motives for doing so. We fall back to a democratic process when  
>> that fails. Now is the time for iteration.
>
> Who has the mandate to say when iteration is appropriate and when  
> the democratic process is appropriate?
>

Oh, the irony :-)

S.