Anthony Juckel wrote: > In all sincerity though, can we please try to redirect all this stop energy regarding the naming choice that Sun made, and direct it in a more positive direction? Just as OpenSolaris is not just OpenSolaris the Developer Preview, it is also not just OpenSolaris the Community. OpenSolaris is many things. I personally feel that the Community or OGB trying to demanding that Sun not call the results of Project Indiana OpenSolaris Developer Preview offers no tangible benefit to users of OpenSolaris the Code, nor Participators in the Community.
There's been a steady trickle of posts from people like yourself who call themselves 'outsiders', and with all due respect, every one of them has missed the point entirely. The issue is about establishing an agreed policy for naming *all* distributions, both present and future, in regard to their use of the OpenSolaris 'brand' - irrespective of *who* authors them. It is also about the annexation of the name of the OpenSolaris community by a subgroup of the community, without the agreement of the rest of the community. These are important issues of governance that matter deeply to the core members of the OpenSolaris community. I know from the outside it must be perplexing to see all this heat about what seems to be a simple naming issue, but that is *not* the core issue, it is just the visible manifestation of what is a much deeper concern. We are trying to form a long-lived, stable and well-governed community that can regulate and manage its own affairs and treat *all* of its constituents in an equitable fashion. If the community appears to be open to manipulation, from whatever source, it is in danger. We must address this issue, we have no choice if the community is to survive. As for your oft-repeated statement about 'stop energy', there's a very simple way of redirecting all the energy, and that's to hold votes on the issues. -- Alan Burlison -- _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
