On Feb 17, 2008 10:55 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > Do we, as a community, want a Sun Microsystems installed dictator that > ignores the will of the community steering everything, or would we > rather take a stand and push back against tyranny?
I think you're being overly dramatic. I haven't seen the "iron will" of any dictator enforced on this community in area in which we have explicitly been given control. > Mr Murdock, you came to this project expecting to be greeted as a > liberator. You expected to manage the project as you might manage > Debian. We are not Debian. You come with no quid pro quo. You did not > build this community. Do not continue to act as though you have. This sort of negativity directed at anybody within our community is really not productive. > /This/ and only this is why I believe we ought to send a message to > SMI. I've proposed the dissolution of the Indiana community, and now > the revocation of community membership of Ian Murdock, an executive of > SMI and the public face for all the evil they stand for and are > willing to inflict. The name is our Alamo. If we don't fight it, > there's nothing substantive worth fighting for. A lynch-mob mentality isn't going to produce anything useful. When I see Sun do something that violates explicit, specific, written promises, then I'll be concerned. My only gripe about everything right now is that it has taken so long to get where we are today and how certain aspects of the request sponsor program have been handled. 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
