Jason J. W. Williams wrote:
> If the goal of the distro is draw folks like my company into the fold,
> there has to be distro unequivocally associated with the OpenSolaris
> name. Because frankly, if you're trying to grab folks from another OS
> you've got a short window of opportunity to get them to try it, and
> confusing the heck out of them because they can't figure out which
> distro is the archetypical OpenSolaris distro is prolly not something
> in Sun's or the community's best interest. If the community can't get
> out if its own way on this one, I'm not sure its wrong of Sun to make
> a unilateral decision. In my opinion, its too important to the future
> of the company that owns the trademark.
>
> I share Ian's frustration in not understanding why this concept isn't
> universally grasped/agreed with. Doesn't mean I don't understand the
> arguments, just don't agree that the community should trump on this
> one.
Most of the arguments here are not against having a distro named OpenSolaris,
they're against Ian (or someone else at Sun who authorized Ian) to decide
that none of the 6 existing distros could be renamed OpenSolaris, but the
new one from Project Indiana could be named OpenSolaris before anyone in
the community had seen it, and then claiming it was the community's distro.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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