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

[Stephen Lau]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM> wrote:
> 
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>
>>> 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......
>>
>> There were many people who had ideas about boards -- corporate boards, 
>> partner/customer boards, community boards, elections, non-elected 
>> appointees, no board at all. But you are correct in that we really 
> 
> If this was true, why then was the discussion all against my proposal?

I wasn't around for that discussion, so I have no history or context 
about it.... but more importantly, I don't see what good or use will 
come out of dredging it up out of the past again.

Whoever originated the proposal: kudos to you.  We've made progress, and 
we have a board - let's move forward rather than looking back.

cheers,
steve

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