[DotGNU]Re: Lessig (was Re: As if the DMCA wasn't bad enough)

[Ben Laurie]

"Crist, Ma" wrote:
> central governance system (XNSORG is as deeply tied to XNS as MSFT is to .NET
> and Passport),
> 
> -and that's bad because?  Linux, Java, Apache, DNS, Jabber 
> (http://foundation.jabber.org/council.html), etc. all seem to function OK 
> with central governance.

Apache may have central governance, if viewed through the right
distorting lens, but is critically different from XNS in that the Apache
board can be separated from the code at the stroke of an rsync - the
licence in no way prevents this. Onename cannot be separated from XNS so
easily.

Cheers,

Ben (Apache Software Foundation Director).

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