Since I work on an free software project at Sun (GNOME), I have worked a
bit with Danese, and must say that I have been less than impressed by
her work. She is friendly and enjoyable to talk to, but seemed less
than helpful in any real sense.
She attended the 2005 GUADEC in Norway with my team and represented
Sun at the GNOME Advisory board. Oddly, she did not have anything to
say in the meeting and instead sat quietly knitting. During the course
of the conference, I overheard her talk to a number of people in the
free software community and she consistently portrayed Sun in a
negative light and seemed to see herself as the lone person in the
company who was trying to get Sun to see the "right" way to do free
software. She seemed to always side with the GPL folks in any
discussion. I never heard her say anything constructive, she instead
seemed to focus on what seemed unresolvable issues.
While working with her, I identified a number of tasks where the GNOME
project needed help. We discussed ways to improve relationships between
ARC and the GNOME project and also relationships between Java and the
GNOME team. She told us that she would help, provide contacts, and
help get some forward direction in these areas, but never followed
through. Although she did focus some of her time on the GNOME project,
I am unaware that she actually did anything helpful for our team.
I've talked with some friends of mine at Intel who have more recently
been working with Danese, and have heard similarly negative things
about her. I won't delve into hearsay, but it seems to confirm my
impressions working with her.
Is anybody aware if Danese actually did anything useful while working
at Sun?
Brian
Danese Cooper has always struck me a GPL biased individual. If its not
GPL its not good enough.
Shawn Walker wrote:
cdrtools forked by Debian Project, claims that build system is incompatible,
Joerg is wrong, they know better, and that Danese Cooper claims that the CDDL
was purposefully made CDDL GPL incompatible:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg00002.html
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/04/1335226
Video times with Danese's speech is from:
http://meetings-archive.debian.net/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/2006-05-14/tower/OpenSolaris_Java_and_Debian-Simon_Phipps__Alvaro_Lopez_Ortega.ogg
27 minutes 27 seconds through 28 minutes 24 seconds
Just what we needed.
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