+-- On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Hillel Lubman <[email protected]>wrote: | there should be no moral dilemma in forking, if Oracle/Sun is not playing their | role in the partnership with the community. +--
As a matter of principle, I see no problem with forking as long as the stewards of Oracle's community don't use their Oracle-chartered role and authority to advance that agenda. In other words, I (John Plocher, private citizen) could easily champion a community fork, but I (John Plocher, OGB Chair) must not. I was elected to govern the OpenSolaris Community, as chartered by Sun/Oracle, under the terms of a constitution that upheld that charter. Using my position on the OGB to seduce the community away from that charter would be wrong - even if I could justify or rationalize my actions by pointing out other people's missteps. The morally right thing to do, were I inclined to support a forked community, would be to resign from the OGB and then devote my energies towards making the forked community successful. If, as you say, the partnership is indeed dissolved, then I simply need to acknowledge the fact by resigning, at which point I am free to go my own way. If a new community is then formed, I'm absolutely sure its success (or my standing in it) won't be based on something as trivial and meaningless as my having the title "OGB Chair" at the time :-) -John
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