[arc-discuss] The relationship between OpenSolaris and ARC

[Martin Bochnig]

John Plocher wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>   
>> Any ARC only gets my approval in case it does not allow a few people to 
>> dominate others. 
>>     
>
> The core contributers of any OS.o community group are explicitly empowered
> to dominate the observers and non-core contributers in their community;
> they are the decision makers for their community, and their authority over
> their community is the basis of the OS.o governance model.
>
> I understand your feelings, but, in your case, they seem to be without
> justification.  According to poll.os.o, you are a core contributer only
> in the OGB community[1], and then only because you produced the first
> independent distro based on the code found on OpenSolaris.org.  It is
> noteworthy that, in light of your demonstrated talent and track record
> for independently producing groundbreaking and useful software, you have
> chosen to not become a core contributer in /any/ of the other OS.o
> communities, including the software producing ones (ON, X, Desktop, SFW,
> NWSC, G11N, ...), or to actually contribute anything other than email.
>
> [...]   -John
>   

John, are you serious about what you just said? Joerg Schilling has 
contributed a resourceful repository of free software (see his ftp site).
And the other "core contributors" (including yourself) have 
"core_contributed" because that's their damn PAID job. Maybe *some* have 
also contributed *parts* of their spare time, but definitely not all of 
them, and not all of their spare time. So they have not core_contributed 
in its actual meaning, because they all are costing the system tons of 
money, yet make holidays and such.

So then, status QUO continues ?
No reason for anyone to feel attracted to this system's process ...


p.s. Look how foolish parts of Sun's management behave: 
http://blogs.sun.com/brianc/entry/sunit_data_center_consolidation
I'm watching the share price and feel sick (has fallen from $22 to $15 
in just a month's time, after the share split correction trick)