>
> On Sep 4, 2006, at 19:54, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>
>>
>> It would be a critical mistake to underestimate her knowledge on
>> the CDDL issues.
>
> Nonetheless she is wrong to characterise the opinion of the Solaris
> engineering team in the way she does. She is speaking this way
> because she lost an argument inside Sun, not because her view is
> representative of the views of Sun or its staff in the way she
> claims.
So then, her opinion is pure emotion in the absence of data.
> She, along with many actual engineers, was an advocate of
> using GPL for OpenSolaris but the need to release rather than wait
> for one of {GPL v3, Mozilla license revision, encumbrance removal}
> meant that this was not possible.
Based on her position inside Sun as well as her dealings with the OSI
I simply made the assumption that she was a CDDL expert. Someone that
worked on it and help to craft it. I understood that she left Sun for
her own reasons and I remember her last day at Sun quite clearly. I
had dealings with her in 2004 and 2005 and at all times I was impressed
with her character and her understanding and insight into the open source
world. She was up front and blunt with brains also.
> I am still furious with her for the
> statement she made at DebConf, which was spiteful and an obstacle to
> a united FOSS movement.
So then you also have your own emotions to bring to the table.
I on the other hand have none, I simply want software to work and to be
easily available to the end user. Free would be nice too. No one would
argue that Jörg is a great asset to the OpenSolaris project as well as
a powerhouse in the open source world. His software has been around a
very long time and if the Debian people have an issue with the CDDL then
I wonder if its the CDDL or rather Jörg that annoys them? Emotions at
the table again perhaps.
I think I'd really like to focus on making the software work or at least,
in the absence of great engineering skills, help other people to make the
software work. At this point I no longer get in a twist over the CDDL vs
GPL vs BSD licenses. Those licenses don't make software work. It is the
people that do the work night and day in their basements at night that
are the real open source world.
Dennis
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