On 02/11/2007, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > >I think he does understand; look where Debian is now, and how Ubuntu > > >has risen above them. Do we want to end up like Debian? So caught-up > > >in voting and democracy that we are paralysed and unable to make > > >important choices? > > > > > > > > So you suggest a dictatorship on the basis that the trains run on > > time. > > Now you're reading between the lines; making assumptions. I merely > indicated that the level of bureaucracy is getting overwhelming. > > > Why is it that the proponents of the OpenSolaris name for the Indiana > > distributions are so opposed to voting? It's not like we propose > > voting over everything. > > I have repeatedly said I would like to see a vote and yet I am > repeatedly accused of opposing one. Stop putting words in my mouth. > > > But we strongly feel that anything which usurps the OpenSolaris name and > > takes exclusive ownership of that name should have community wide > > consensus based support. Having a vote is, in fact, a step down from > > that position. It is clear that there is no consensus. > > How can you usurp something you have no control over? > > > I see that the Indiana proponents are trying to continuously deflect the > > issues. It's not about what Indiana produced; it is not about whether > > we should or should not have a distribution labeled OpenSolaris. It's > > about a single project singlehandedly claiming ownership of OpenSolaris > > without even asking the community or the its elected representatives. > > The community was asked actually. It's just that the community was > allowed to decide. Asking for input and following it are two different > things.
Correction "*not* allowed to decide". -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
