John Plocher <[email protected]> wrote: > +-- 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.
Correct, we know that the OGB has two distro creators in it's middle and I see no reason why this needs to change. We just cannot do specific things as members of the OGB. > 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 For the same reason, we cannot try to help specific people with some of their interests (as long as these interests are not interests that have to be supported by the OGB). Jörg -- EMail:[email protected] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [email protected] (uni) [email protected] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
