On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 4:25 PM, Ben Rockwood <benr at cuddletech.com> wrote: > 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.
While I often do not agree with Mr. Fielding's views nor of some of his beliefs regarding Sun and/or others; we are supposed to be an inclusive community. Just because someone wasn't here during the early years of Solaris doesn't mean that they haven't contributed something valuable in the past or are unable to do so ever. It will be important to remember this as our community grows and people that have never used Solaris/OpenSolaris are not seen as being "lesser members" of our community. As the Advocacy CG web page states, "*Everyone* has something to contribute." Cheers, -- 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
