[ogb-discuss] LDoms Community Proposal redux ...

[Roy T. Fielding]

On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:25 PM, James Carlson wrote:
> Though I mostly agree with what you've said, I do think it's important
> to point out a potential misunderstanding here.
>
> Resource constraints aren't the important issue behind the
> architectural concerns over competing solutions.  A more important
> issue is with _who_ pays the resulting taxes and has to deal with
> chaos.
>
> For example, if there are two deliveries of /usr/bin/ls -- one that's
> Solaris and the other that's GNU (for instance) -- do we force every
> script writer depending on 'ls' to add compatibility logic to support
> both?  If not, then do we end up with a sea of mutually incompatible
> things?

Product names are not left up to chance -- they need to be owned by
the organization as a whole.  I meant that CGs should be allowed to
compete on solutions to overlapping problem areas, not on overlapping
product names.  In any case, that concern is only relevant if there
is a common distribution under which conflicts can be determined, so
I would expect such an ARC to be specific to one named distribution
(if there is more than one).

....Roy