Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Stephen Lau wrote:
>
> > it's probably not worth much - but in case you want to know.... OGB
> > members brought up alternatives, including the "Indiana, an OpenSolaris
> > Distribution", but Sun is very much set on remodeling the community
>
> Right. Both Ben and I (at least) asked how set in stone the policy of
> having Indiana as the One True OpenSolaris was. The impression I got
> was that the policy was indeed set in concrete, although the concrete
> hadn't quite dried, and there *might* be some way to change the decision.
Even if it dried, you could still blast it away ;-)
Using the name "OpenSolaris" for a distro makes it impossible for the community
to decide on compatibiltiy rules and it makes it impossible to explain other
people why a distro called "OpenSolaris" may not be "Binary
OpenSolaris-compatible"
J?rg
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