On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Rich Teer wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > The community has started reacting to Sun's statement that we > > forwarded on their behalf to the community. In the covering > > note I stated that at that time the OGB had no official position > > on that statement. > > > > I think the time is now right to open that issue for debate. > > Should we, the OGB, prepare an official response to Sun's > > statement, and if so, what should it be? (I appreciate that > > this is probably a difficult subject for the Sun employees on > > the board...) > > > > Several of us have made posts on mailing lists and elsewhere > > asserting our personal (rather the OGB's) position, but I think > > the community would appreciate a statement from us. What do > > you guys think? > > > > > I agree. The OGB should publish a response. People watching the > threads already know what my opinion is. > > -steve
Steve. Publishing a response does very little. It's already apparent that Sun doesn't care what the communities opinion is, so publishing an official opinion is pointless. AFAIK, the only coercive power the OGB has is the instantiation and more importantly the dissolution of projects. Perhaps the OGB should toy with the idea of relegating OpenSolaris ( the distro ) to being simply a Sun Micro product, not at all associated with the OpenSolaris community or infrastructure ? -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
