Alan Burlison wrote: > As I said, I am neutral on the need for a .com/.org split. However I > felt that the blog post painted the current situation in an unfairly > negative light, and I felt that point should be addressed.
Apologies for that - it certainly wasn't meant to be negative in anyway, and I most certainly have painted the current situation with the wrong brush. > There's an old joke about someone asking for directions and being told > "If you wanted to get to there, I wouldn't start from here", and I very > much feel that is the situation we are in with opensolaris. When we > started out we were told to head in a specific direction, and I feel we > have successfully done what we have been asked to do. What I think is > unfair is the suggestion that we have somehow not delivered "the thing > that we need", when what has actually happened is the goalposts have > moved. To characterise what we have at present as a failure of some > sort is incorrect - we have what was asked for. The fact that we now > need something different is not a failing of what we have done so far, > it is a sign of growth. Agree. Glynn _______________________________________________ website-discuss mailing list [email protected]
