On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > On 31/10/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> > > wrote: > > > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> 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. > > This is simple: just set up a web page that points to all OpenSolaris based > distributions. > > You cannot install "OpenSolaris" but an OpenSolaris based distribution.
Who says? Users seem to think they can. Why do people on OSNews and Slashdot (before Project Indiana existed) expect to download and install something called OpenSolaris? This is precisely why the branding and trademark guidelines discussion was started; to help set user expectations. Obviously, at the moment, many user expectations are different than some here. -- 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
