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Submission + - Sun accused of hardball open source project tactic 2

Submitted by on Saturday December 01, 2007 @02:52PM

An anonymous reader writes: The OpenDS project now appears close to extinction now that the people running the show, including the person who has contributed > 50% of the code have withdrawn from the project after Sun tried to force them to relinquish control.

In an open letter to the project and Sun, Neil Wilson gives the history behind their decision to retire from the project.

Sun have tried to put a different spin on the story and discredit Neil (Ludo, Eduardo-1, Eduardo-2) but were firmly rebutted by another (ex) member of the team Trey.

We will now have to wait and see if Jonathan Schwartz really means the hype he has been generating about Sun's commitment to Open Source — preferably by firing the execs responsible for this mess.

Submission + - Sun bullies OpenDS developers (wordpress.com) 2

Submitted by andy_from_nc on Thursday November 29, 2007 @10:08PM

andy_from_nc writes: Neil Wilson has posted that he and all of the American developers on Sun's OpenDS project and the positions have been moved to France. In order to collect their severance benefits Sun required the developers to accept a governance change to the project which ensured Sun's control. Instead the developers resigned from the project (which allowed Sun to make the change anyhow) as they did not feel it was in the best interest of the project but could not afford to loose their benefits. Neil was probably the most prolific committer to the project as evidenced by the revision control logs. Sun has responded on the OpenDS users mail list saying that they did not ask the developers to resign and that the governance change was a return to a previous "Sun approved" revision.

Network World Article: Sun bullied, used threats to gain control of open source project, former owner says

In blogs:

Neil Wilson has An open letter to the OpenDS community and to Sun Microsystems

Does OpenDS need a fork

The story of OpenDS and the departing Neil Wilson

Submission + - Sun used threats to sieze OpenDNS,owner says (networkworld.com) 1

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Anonymous Coward

on Thursday November 29, 2007 @01:27PM

Anonymous Coward writes: "Sun used strong-arm tactics and made threats to the owners of an open-source directory project to wrestle away control, according to one of the former owners and creators of the project.In the process, Sun potentially has torn a gaping hole in the OpenDS (directory service) project, which is creating a free Java-based directory service for large deployments that offers high performance, extensibility and management. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/112907-sun-opends.html"

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