>> Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system. >> >> Solaris is Solaris which is UNIX(tm). >> >> If you want UNIX then you can go looking for AIX or HPUX or SCO(?) or >> Solaris. I was always under the impression that OpenSolaris was the >> community project that worked with and dealt with the source code to >> Solaris. > > A good example! > > Let us decide that Sun first needs to call Solaris "UNIX" before a > OpenSolaris based distro is allowed to call itself "OpenSolaris". > > Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system but you cannot call it "UNIX", it is still > Solaris.
One way or another, should OpenSolaris take off as Sun hopes, and have entities of various sizes jump on the bandwagon and create distros, they WILL differ and be incompatible. Just like over in Linux land. By then however, the OpenSolaris moniker will have been wasted because of the usual shitty marketing decisions. Sun's already starting to gain street cred for being annoying to deal with via OpenOffice. OO however has already a nice foothold and can afford some drama. OpenSolaris however can't (yet anyway). I hope Ian and however else is responsible for that decision wise up and retract the distro name. They can claim that it was named "OpenSolaris DP" because it was a test of the OS codebase in the wild, to retcon everything, and no one would probably say anything. -mg
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