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 -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ distribution-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/distribution-discuss
