On Dec 20, 2007 10:31 AM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > John Plocher wrote: > > Rather than creating guidelines for the effective delegation > > of authority and responsibility, we seem to be centralizing it. > > > [Sent too soon - thats what I get for composing multiple emails > at the same time] > > I meant to add the following: > Under the charter, the OGB really has no control over the non-CG > and non-Project pages. The website, the infrastructure and the > [NonCG/P] pages are (or could be claimed to be) Sun assets. > > Just as in the trademark and branding discussion [which is on hold, > pending OGB action on the OpenSolaris/Indiana issue], Sun is > opening up its control of these assets and allowing the OS.o > community to provide input and suggestions. But, in the legal end, > Sun retains the ownership and control. > > Setting up an OS.o committee that pretends to take that control > from Sun (rather than trying to work with Sun) suggests that we > are either looking to force a confrontation or to set it up for > failure. > > As I said, this seems wrong.
Indeed. Of course one of the problems is determining which pages qualify as non-CG or non-Project. Only the copyright note pages come to mind for me; I'm certain there are others. -- 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
