Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]> wrote:

> [email protected] wrote:
> > The problem is that Sun/Oracle did already fork and changed things without 
> > asking the comunity whether this to be accepted by the community. 
>
> That's not forking, that's just Sun controlling the project as they always
> did - there's still just one source tree and the same basic groups working
> on it.   The community never had a choice of accepting or denying Sun's work.
> The original constitution may have mistakenly given the illusion that it
> could, but in practice, we all knew that wasn't true.   The community could
> never say "Sorry Sun, we know you spent millions developing, testing and

Well I am not sure whether you have been in Santa Clara on September 14th 2004.
At that time, it was obviouy that Sun was speaking about a co-development 
between people from Sun and people fron the external community.

I still believe that we need this model in order to make OpenSolaris a 
successfull OSS project.

Jörg

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