[ogb-discuss] [opensolaris-summit] My comments (very subjective) on proposed Summit topics

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> > But who made all of the decisions about this?  Sun.
> > Not the OpenSolaris community.
>
> The community ratified the constitution, they didn't have to.
>
> The community elected the ogb, they didn't have to.
>
> You could argue that there needs to be more non-Sun folks that have
> voting privileges, but those Sun folks are still part of the
> community.

After it looked as it Sun did like to dominate OpenSolaris, I did 
ask to create a constitution an s government board in November 2004.
I did this because I wanted to make sure that we will not get a similar
situation as with Linux wehre Torvalds dominates all decisions.

There was a hard discussion and I was attacked and told that this will never 
work.

Later (in January 2005) people from Sun started to offer the same as their 
idea......

Now we have it and my impression is that it's main problem is missing 
visibility. Missing visibility results in missing interest.

Jörg

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