On 8/1/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > > Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > ... > I had a long "chat" with several Sun VP/Director types after the latest > Solaris' All Hands meeting about OpenSolaris. My biggest take-away > was: > > ************************************************************ > We need an operational definition for the term "OpenSolaris" > ************************************************************ > > As in: > An OS developer says "OpenSolaris", but really means > "the source base managed by the ON Community on > www.opensolaris.org". > > An enthusiastic academic says "OpenSolaris", but really > means "the web site, communities and discussions hosted > on the server at www.opensolaris.org". > > A student at Tsinghua University in Beijing says > "OpenSolaris", but really means "?????". > > A committed distro developer says "OpenSolaris", but > really means "the set of source trees managed by the > various community groups on www.opensolaris.org, plus > all the various distros that are built out of that > source". > > A Technical Marketing whiz at Sun says "OpenSolaris", > but really means "a new distro, built out of the various > sources found out on www.opensolaris.org and elsewhere > that is intended to become, like Ubuntu, a valued reference > distro that could be the basis for many other derivative > distros as well as a new Sun product". > > A webmaster says "OpenSolaris", but really means "the > web-app that is hosted on www.opensolaris.org". > > ... I'm sure there are others as well... > > We've all seen the conflicts that come up when people try > to have a conversation, but it turns out that each has > their own conflicting definition for OpenSolaris: > > Ian says "I want OpenSolaris to be ...", meaning that > he wants to explore the creation of a new distro, and > immediately Alan tries to make sense of the proposal > in terms of someone hijacking the ON Community... > > No wonder tempers flare :-)
John, I think that OpenSolaris can mean all those things and more. And it's all good... Can't we just use context to determine the meaning? -Brian -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20070801/082d7492/attachment.html>
