Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersm...@oracle.com> wrote:
> This simply isn't that sort of open source project - it's not Debian or
> Apache.
> Historically it's been more like Linux, Mozilla, MySQL, or Ubuntu, where the
> founder/sponsor has the final say in all decisions.
One of the intentions was not to have similar problems as with the management
by the "lord of the manor" method used in Linux. I still see that it could be
made possible.
> Is that a horrible thing? Only if you expect and wait for it to be something
> it's not. Accept it for what it is and figure out how to work with it. You
> can always be in control of your fork/distro, just don't expect Oracle to give
> up their control.
Maybe you don't understand my intentions, I am not interested in being forced
to fork as long as there is a way to collaborate. Collaborating has the
advantage to reduced efforts at both sides.
Alan, you are working on Xorg and I believe you know by own experience that
collaboration is possible.
Jörg
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