>
>>former sun employee, member of the opensolaris pilot project they are
>>using to give the appearance as having inside information that makes
>>the CDDL and the people behind it look evil.
>
> I know; but *who* is she?
I think we all know that she was a lot more than just some Sun employee.
How soon people forget.
She was :
Danese Cooper
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Chief Open Source Evangelist
Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Back in December of 2004 she was critical to the creation of the CDDL as
well as the relationship between Sun and the OSI.
See http://www.opensource.org/docs/board.html
Danese Cooper - Secretary/Treasurer
Danese Cooper has a 15-year history in the software industry and has
long been an advocate for transparent development methodologies. Danese
worked for six years at Sun Microsystems, Inc. on the inception and growth
of the various open source projects sponsored by Sun (including
OpenOffice.org, java.net and blogs.sun.com). She was Sun's Chief Open
Source Evangelist and founded Sun's Open Source Programs Office. She has
unique experience implementing open source projects from within a large
proprietary company. She joined the OSI Board in December 2001 and
currently serves as Secretary & Treasurer. As of March 2005 Danese has
joined Intel to advise on open source projects, investment and support.
She speaks internationally on Open Source and Licensing issues.
It would be a critical mistake to underestimate her knowledge on the CDDL
issues.
> It is interesting how people quote the FSF on the CDDL; they invariably
> neglect to mention that the FSF says the *exact* same things about
> the Apache 2.0 license yet Apache 2.0 is still part of Debian.
The issues between the CDDL and GPL and Linux versus UNIX will go away
about as fast as racism has gone away. Its primarily emotional and not
technical. Perhaps we really need a Martin Luther King style inspired
leader that will cut through the problems and the differences. Let's
face it, we are talking about software here, not peoples lives and
freedoms regardless of what Richard Stallman says.
Dennis Clarke
Director Blastwave.org
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