On Wed, Feb 13, 2008 at 11:40 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > Seriously now... even I think this is getting silly, and I'm young and > foolish. A couple dozen people forking O/N?come now... > > Al Hopper's right. The OGB was spineless, Sun was aggressive and > ignored the community. They'll do whatever they're going to do quite > aside from how we feel about it. It sucks. All we can do is add it to > our cynicism and continue to try to build the greatest OS in the > world, no matter what Sun decides to call it.
Sorry, but I disagree. The OGB is not spineless. I do think they could be more assertive, but not in this particular case. You seem to confuse their ability to do something with a trademark that they have no control over with being spineless. The OGB can only take three actions as far as I know: * Make a statement expressing disagreement * Resign collectively causing the community to revert to Sun's caretaking * Attempt to get the community to move their resources and website elsewhere and establish a non-profit and new trademark, etc. The last two options would be a mistake in my view. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
