[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] [ogb-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

[Shawn Walker]

On 02/11/2007, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote:
> The Indiana developer preview naming decision seems to instead
> have done
>
>      Get an idea, discuss it with executives at Sun, announce
>      the results to the stakeholders as an already-decided fact
>      and start acting unilaterally on the result.
>
> The first builds a community, the second erodes one.

John that isn't fair. You were at the summit, if you remember, we had
quite a long and heated discussion with folks that weren't even
associated with Sun about the name as well as on the mailing lists for
a few weeks before any action was taken.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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