> Darren J Moffat wrote:
> > There is only one taxonomy that is a problem and
> that is the one named 
> > "Sun Private"  there is no "OpenSolaris Private"
> and neither should 
> > there be.  The "Sun Private" taxonomy is *very
> much* frowned on and is 
> > very very rarely allowed to be used, the reason
> being it is actually 
> > identical to Committed (nee Stable) but without
> documentation shipped 
> > outside of Sun - in an open source world this makes
> even less sense 
> > that it ever did inside Sun.  Its use is mostly
> historical.
> Sun Private means its use is allowed across multiple
> Sun Products.  At 
> the moment, their
> may end up being multiple OpenSolaris Distros, but
> ultimately there is 
> only one OpenSolaris
> product.
> 
> Yep, I intentionally didn't change the name when I
> redid the taxonomy.  
> If OpenSolaris
> ever somehow became multiple products (as Apache
> seems to have done), 
> then we might
> create and "OpenSolaris Private" level, but this
> still wouldn't be a 
> rename of "Sun Private".
> 

 I have to ask.  How would you know when an OpenSolaris
distribution crosses that magical threshold of becoming
a product to define when "OpenSolaris Private" is allowable?

---Bob
 
 
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