On Aug 8, 2007, at 1:19 PM, James Carlson wrote: > Roy T. Fielding writes: >> On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:25 PM, James Carlson wrote: >>> For example, if there are two deliveries of /usr/bin/ls -- one >>> that's >>> Solaris and the other that's GNU (for instance) -- do we force every >>> script writer depending on 'ls' to add compatibility logic to >>> support >>> both? If not, then do we end up with a sea of mutually incompatible >>> things? >> >> Product names are not left up to chance -- they need to be owned by >> the organization as a whole. > > We must be using different terms here, because "product" means > something far afield of what I thought we were talking about -- with > "Solaris" being one example of a product. It seems a surprising term > to use right here, as it's in the realm of marketing and trademarks, > not architecture or governance. > > I suspect you mean "delivered file or object" or some accumulation of > those (such as "software package" or "project"), right?
I mean product, as in work product, that which is produced, and the thing under production in a collaboration, such that it might be described to users with a proper name. Solaris is one example. So is "ls". GNU ls, though, is not owned by this organization -- I would think it is called gls or gnuls here. ....Roy
