On 10/31/2007 2:42 PM, Ceri Davies wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:08:12PM -0600, Jon Trulson 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? >> >> >>>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. > > > There's your example of harm; Jon Trulson would be supporting only > the reference distribution and not the other distros. This can be > expected to hold true for others. [1] > > Ceri > > [1] This can, of course, be seen to be a good thing for ISVs, but that's > not the question which was one of harm to other distros.
I think you're reaching. As has been stated numerous times throughout the thread today, what end users decide to run as their OpenSolaris-based distro will determine which distro(s) an ISV has to support. On the other hand, if ISVs like Jon qualify a "reference" distribution then ti should be easier to offer support to derivative distros as well. Certainly easier than is the case in Linux-land today. Marty _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
