> So you do agree there should be competing systems and then the ones that > people prefer would coalesce to being the dominant. > > Maybe I'm missing the point but I thought opensolaris was there to > provide an operating system that the world could contribute to and get a > sense of ownership as they made it the best in the world. Sun would then > take the parts they thought made sense and worked really well and made > that part of Sun Solaris. Am I missing the point? > > Bruce Rothermal
I think this had been the pre-Indiana-era "Sun product model". This controversy has been stretched up and down during the recent months, especially during Indiana's launch time instantly after Oct 31st'07. Maybe I don't understand enough of that legal stuff. Everything else is still possible, also now: As long as you don't call it "foo OpenSolaris"[T.M.] But this has, in fact, never been possible legally. 2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20051215043836/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/trademark/ NOW: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/trademark/ -- Martin
