melodrama at CentOS?

[Joshua Judson Rosen]

Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com> writes:
>
> Bill McGonigle <bill at bfccomputing.com> writes:
> >
> > Still, all kinds of providers go through leadership changes and ousters
> > all the time - this one is being done open-source style.  That seems to
> > have some media people freaked out.
> 
> The whole `open-ness' idea still seems to be `new and unsettling' to a
> lot of people; even people who are accustomed to open development in
> software still get freaked-out when the open methodology is applied in
> areas other than straight-up software development.
> 
> Openmoko, for example, has repeatedly had issues with the open
> development model that they've used for their smartphone/palmtop/whatever
> hardware and software: a bunch of things that were more like `team
> status meetings', `team morale-raising sessions', etc. were all
> mis-taken as being `press releases' and `marketing promises'.

Rather, I should say that they've repeatedly had [public relations]
problems *due to* their open development model. The open development
model itself is working just fine :)

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