[indiana-discuss] Stop

[Jim Grisanzio]

Glynn Foster wrote:

> 
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
> 
>>I understand that, and I am all opensourcy myself, but in this case,
>>initial conversations with Sun's TM lawyers need to be made by a Sun
>>employee. I have the best interests of this community at heart.
> 
> 
> I know a lot of people don't know Sara, or have a basic distrust of marketing,
> but *trust* me, she knows her stuff and very much in tune with the needs of the
> community. It's going to be a difficult conversation, but she's absolutely
> right, that initial contact needs to be done internally.


Agree 100%. There's no other way, actually. You know it's interesting, 
for as much as Sun has to learn from the open source community, I can 
easily point to issues like this (and others) as an example of how Sun 
can teach the open source community a great deal about the challenges of 
doing open source from within a multi-national corporation. It goes both 
ways. The open source community really needs to open up more and be more 
flexible. One of the greatest lessons I've learned on this project is 
that the open source community doesn't know it all.

Jim
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