Jonathan Adams <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 3 September 2012 16:34, Joerg Schilling
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> <snip>
> > Correct, OpenSolaris is an umbrella and we need to find a way to coordinate
> > it's development to keep enough community behind OpenSolaris.
>
> except of course that we cannot and do not own any right to the name
> "Solaris" in any way shape or form, hence the reason that we need to
> refer to the OS/Network as "Illumos".
>
> for us, OpenSolaris is dead, because we cannot use the name.

Some people created the fork "Illumos" but failed to get the whole community 
behind them, so using the name Illumos does not work.

On the other side, nobody can forbid us to use "OpenSolaris" is a descriptive 
way.

Jörg

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