On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:42 -0700, Bryan Cantrill wrote:
> nomenclature. That's it; it's not more complicated than that. As members
> of our community's elected body have made exhaustively clear, there is
> a consensus that a single OpenSolaris-derived distribution -- even one
> emanating from Sun -- should not have exclusive use of the name
> "OpenSolaris".
We all thought it was okay to burn fossil fuels a few years ago; there
was a community consensus even that it was okay - this appears to be a
similar issue (though of less global importance I admit).
When do we start experimenting with the way we package our OS to see
whether that experiment enriches the community ? If we get more users as
a result of having a distro called "OpenSolaris", then that's great - if
we get fewer, then we'll have tried and failed, but at least we'll have
tried.
cheers,
tim
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Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf
