R P Herrold wrote: > On Sat, 29 Mar 2008, John Summerfield wrote: > >> I'm the last person who should be negotiating on CentOS's behalf, >> _this_ has to be done by an acknowledged leader, whether it's Johnny, >> Karanbir or someone else. Someone with a sound knowledge of the >> issues, someone Sun will see as someone representing the project. > > ... If it should be done ** at all ** within CentOS. 'has to be done' > inplies obligation to do it; there is no such obligation absent > sufficient support. How shall those who do it insure against the > liability that Sun document purports to impose? How shall that > insurance be paid for? If a given person wants to take that risk, > uninsured, that is their perogative. > > Shall the individuals who make up the CentOS project core put their > personal assets at risk, for free and without compensation, to meet > someone's 'expectation' for which they have not paid? I think not. > > And it is just not the case that the CentOS 'has to', nor indeed _can_ > be all things to all people. The mice can vote to 'bell the cat' all > they wish, but that does not do it until some mouse does it. > > This week, in another part of FOSS, Fedora finds itself in a trap, > fueled in part by 'what if' extreme remarks by some who post here, to be > 'more friendly' to users who will not learn the Unix ways of PATH. If > Fedora proceeds that way, it is at risk of being not Unix0like any > more. It would lose parts of the aspects which make Fedora a proving > ground for Enterprise distributions. Gentoo, and Ubuntu can do that > just fine already. If it goes that way, Fedora commits suicide. > > Part of an Enterprise approach is growing up, putting aside childish > ways, and being 'businesslike'. I like CentOS as a boring and reliable > environment in which to live professionally. I will continue to argue > strongly against risking its continued existence. I don't see that any of that has anything to do with the text you quoted. -- Cheers John -- spambait 1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu Z1aaaaaaa at coco.merseine.nu -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)