On 05/11/2007, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 09:15 -0800, John Plocher wrote: > > In order to be effective, > > I feel that it needs to be driven by a few visionary leaders who are > > committed > > to effectively engaging with the community in this endeavor. > > I was mostly following you[1] up until this point. > > But here I profoundly disagree. > > We have no shortage of "visionaries" in this community. What we are > short on are people who can set aside their own personal vision for > where to take opensolaris, and instead listen to others and build > consensus around where our visions overlap.
The problem with that viewpoint is that consensus is rarely achieved; at least not in a clear manner. I think there's a good reason why companies have CEOs, boards have directors, etc. They ensure consensus can be achieved and that there is a consistent direction and vision. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
