[ogb-discuss] Ben's Agenda Items for Jan 23rd, 2008

[Joerg Schilling]

Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> Everyone repeat after me:
> OpenSolaris does not give me the right to tell Sun what to do.
> (as much as we'd like to think it does) :)

This sounds like a minssunderstaning of OSS development.

In a real OSS project, people who contribute code have the right to
decide on the future of the project.

The current problem with OpenSolaris is that there is a self strengthening
mechanism that prevents contributions and thus makes it hard if not impossible 
for people outside Sun to get into a state of being able to decide.

Jörg

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