Shawn Walker wrote:
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.
And differentiating. Why would/should a user chose one distribution over
another? It's not solely based on what it is called, but what it offers.
Like with Ubuntu, which keeps getting brought up, each distro targets a
specific market. Variations are what are all the distros should be going
for, as has always been the case. And with good TM guidelines in place,
we can form a family of compatible distributions that focus on different
areas and carry the OpenSolaris name.
I have yet to find any fault in anything Shawn has said. It's getting a
little creepy.
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