>Alan DuBoff wrote: >> I certainly don't remember you lobbying for Sun to bring back Solaris on >> x86, in fact, I don't remember you in the Solaris community at the time at >> all. >> > >Thats was precisely the point of the "5th seat" on the CAB, a neutral >3rd party individual would was experienced and successful in the Open >Source/Free Software movement. You might recall a time when people >lobbied for Linus Torvalds or Eric Raymond to fill that seat. > >This isn't to say that Dr. Fielding is unexperienced with Solaris, look >at Apache and its history and you'll see the proof of his expertise. > > >I can not and will not abide bashing of Dr. Fielding. He wrote the >Constitution by himself because the CAB couldn't get it done (I was on >the working group assisting the CAB so I'm to blame with everyone >else). He brought his wealth of experience from the ASF and other >endeavors to our fledgling community and he deserves nothing but praise >for his efforts, time, and commitment. > >The community had ample opportunity to contribute or reject the >Constitution and it did not. The shortcoming is not in his efforts but >the rest of the community that has repeatedly shown utter disregard for >the bylaws he drafted. > >Dr. Fielding deserves the respect and honor of this community regardless >of how you feel about our current situation. If it were not for his >work I guarantee you we'd still be trying to write a constitution today.
+1 I deplore Roy's departure and I hope we can still call upon him to explain the finer points of the constitution when the need arises. Casper
