Giovanni wrote:
> By the way, this saturday I am working to commit a big java 
> project...instead of being at home at developing Celeste :-(
> I think we can grow, I am reading
> http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_05/b3918001_mz001.htm
> as suggested by Frank Caggiano.

It's a cool article.  However, the exact way they organize does not seem
to map well to what we want.  Even with all the delegation, Linus is
still the executor and the court of last appeal.  We don't have anyone
like that around here that everyone could be happy with.

Also, I take issue with this comment:

	"Unless he changed his ways, they might concoct a rival software
package -- a threat that could have crippled Linux. "

It's all open source, and this kind of thing is not only reasonable, but
practically inevitable.  It is crippling to have 100 rival versions. 
Having 3-5 is perfectly fine, and practically, seems likely to happen no
matter how hard you try.  You don't even have to announce the fork
explicitly; every Squeak image is already a mini-fork.  If you move
forward with an image, and don't re-merge with the community, then you
can quietly create a fork without even thinking about it.


-Lex