On Feb 13, 2008 8:09 PM, Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com> wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > Having an OpenSolaris Distribution, such as Indiana, helps ease so > > many of the complaints users and others have had about SXCE (e.g. > > torrent, mirror sites, etc.). > > *AN* OpenSolaris distro called Indiana is fine. It's the "THE OpenSolaris > distro" I have a problem with. Also, Schillix, Belenix, Martux, etc. > also avoid the "freely redistributable" issues.
I think we'll just have to disagree. I strongly believe that there should be "*the* OpenSolaris distribution" available from opensolaris.org. > Yes, it's a shame that licensing issues prevent SXCE from being > redistributable. That's what Project Emmancipation is intended > to fix. Project Emancipation doesn't really fix that issue though. SXCE has many components that are licensed by Sun, etc. (such as the bitstream font engine) that have nothing to do with Project Emancipation. > > I think meeting user expectations is more important than stroking egos. > > I don't see any egos trying to be stroked here. That's what it feels like to me though. What I seem to hear is that, "It isn't fair that Sun gets to use the name they own and pay money for. Why is their work any better than mine? *I* should get to use the name." Some folks seem to not want a distribution called OpenSolaris because it would "somehow detract" or imply that their distribution and hard work isn't valuable -- that smells like ego to me. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
