On 31/10/2007, Jon Trulson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
> > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>> More than 2 years ago, we did agreee that noone except Sun has the
> >>> right to call a distro "OpenSolaris" and that Sun shoul/would not do this.
> >>>
> >>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
> >>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
> >>>
> >>> I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause
> >>> harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions.
> >>
> >> I have yet to see any qualifying statements that indicate exactly
> >> *how* other distributions would be harmed.
> >
> > How about trying to prove that there is no such harm?
> >
>
>    How could that possibly be done?

That's not my problem; I have no interest in proving its harm. The
onus of proving a point is upon the person who claimed it.

> > It is obvious that if Sun calls a distro "OpenSolaris", many people believe
> > that this is the one and only.
> >
>
>    FWIW, as a third party that develops software on Solaris, I would
>    welcome an 'OpenSolaris Reference' distribution.
>
>    Without it, we would be forced to choose one or two of the dists
>    available to try to officially support, much as we have to do now on
>    Linux.

Exactly!

-- 
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]

Reply via email to