On Feb 13, 2008 8:33 PM, John Sonnenschein <johnsonnenschein at gmail.com> wrote: > On Feb 13, 2008 6:30 PM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > On Feb 13, 2008 8:23 PM, Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote: > > > > And when speaking about "meeting user expectations": Many many other > > > users expect "OpenSolaris" to be the FREE kernel&&libs code base (believe > > > me), and SXCE to be "Sun's OpenSolaris Distro", just as had been > > > reiterated for over two years, until the release of Indiana. > > > > > > > That's the thing about user expectations. You have to adapt to the > > expectations of an entire market, not just a subset. It is my firm > > belief that the majority of the target audience for OpenSolaris wants > > to see *the* OpenSolaris distribution; not just *a* OpenSolaris > > distribution on OpenSolaris.org. > > > > Oh? Can we all see the results and hard data from the focus groups > you've run then?
If you want to get technical about it; I could ask you for the same. I think though, that it isn't necessary. Much like a political caucus where they merely count the people present, I think if you go around to various technology enthusiast websites and read about people's perception, they *expect* to download something called OpenSolaris -- not have a menu of a hundred choices when they click a download button. > Has anyone even done anything of the sort? You know... actually asking > the sorts of people you want to attract what they want... Seems like > that should be step 1 before any drastic measures ( like reassigning > the trademark ) are taken I suspect Sun has done this internally, otherwise they wouldn't be spending the money. However, whether they choose to share that proprietary, valuable information is their perogative. -- 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
