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

[Joerg Schilling]

Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> > 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.
> >
> >   
>
> Read my earlier threads.  I was saying OpenSolaris is not a way to tell 
> Sun what to do with its distributions.  Whatever Sun chooses to do with 
> Solaris, or however Sun chooses to run Indiana is Sun's business. 
>
> People seem to misunderstand that.

OK, but then you seem to imply that Sun Solaris may/will be different from
what the OpenSolaris community creates and we need a OpenSolaris source 
repository that is managed by the OpenSolaris community. 

Jörg

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