On 31/10/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > It is obvious that if Sun calls a distro "OpenSolaris", many people > > > believe > > > that this is the one and only. > > > > I don't believe that for a moment. Going to ubuntu.com only lets me > > download Ubuntu easily; but there are links that go off to other > > places where you can get Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc. Many people do know > > that other "flavours" of Ubuntu exist. > > With current OpenSolaris distros, we have much more variance in the feeling > than with different ubuntu variants.
Which is an interesting tidbit, but doesn't disprove my point. Remember that one of the goals in using the trademark is to set user expectations. If, as you say, we have much more variance right now between OpenSolaris distributions than usage of the trademark should be restricted accordingly. Setting user expectations should be a primary goal for any distribution. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
