I guess the point I was trying to make but forgot to add is that OpenSolaris as baseline compatibility tag is now wasted, unless the naming decision is reverted.
-mg > 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.
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