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The Credibility Issues of MS's CodePlex Foundation
alphadogg writes 'Microsoft's new CodePlex Foundation has serious flaws to correct if it wants to become a credible force in the open source industry, and attract a diverse collection of developers and participants, according to an expert in forming consortia and foundations. Andy Updegrove, a lawyer and founder of ConsortiumInfo.org, says Microsoft has created with CodePlex a rigid foundation that has almost no wiggle room and a poorly crafted governance structure that concentrates authority at the top and leaves little power to others who might join the foundation.' Here is Andy's detailed analysis of CodePlex's structure: "Over the past 22 years, I've helped structure scores of open, consensus based consortia and foundations, and represented over 100 in all... In this blog entry, I'll show where I think the legal and governance structure of CodePlex has wandered off the open path, and offer specific recommendations for how the structure could be changed to give people (other than Microsoft business partners) confidence that CodePlex will be an organization worth joining."
I have discovered a new law.
A persons mental age is equal to the average life expectancy multiplied by the reciprocal of the largest number of times they have used the 'M$' pejoratively in a slashdot post.
In this case, the posters mental age is 65 * (1 / 13) = 5
He thinks like a typical 5 year old.
"His name was James Damore."
There is no campaign to rename 'Linux' into GNU/Linux, but a campaign to actually name the OS completely. Linux does not do any code compilation, Linux is not a shell, etc. Miguel Icaza should know better what a kernel is and what it isn't.
Please stop representing Stallmanite mind control as logic.
Just because you believe whatever divisive, deliberately attention-seeking and controversial canard your Leader has generated this month, that doesn't mean that the rest of us consider it sane.
Stallman wants two things.
a) Narcissistic supply, to be worshipped as God, and to be the centre of attention on a continual basis.
b) Control of as many other people as humanly possible, which basically follows on from a).
The entire "GNU/Linux," flap is a direct attempt at further obtaining both of the above objectives, by ensuring that he gets mentioned wherever Linux does.
The man has become a source of nothing other than semantically driven conflict, distraction due to such, and pointless noise, and you don't do anyone any favours (including yourself) by validating his crap.
Stop doing it.