Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Naming a distrio "OpenSolaris" would create the impression that there is only > onle distribution and thus harm other distributions. >
And Martin Bochnig wrote: = = But if Sun feels they need to release "the one" OpenSolaris distro = called "OpenSolaris", while disallowing others to use that name, how is = OpenSolaris Open - Solaris then? = Can we can simultaneously accommodate the above wishes, and the following? Ian Murdock wrote: | Is OpenSolaris just the code base, or is it an operating | system you can download and run?" | That's what this boils down to, IMO. And the reason why it's good that this (uniquely difficult) issue will be resolved by a referendum (John Plocher's proposal). I suppose we might wind up with a compromise: Having something called "The OpenSolaris Reference Distro" (e.g. Sanjay's team's project: http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/caiman/Slim_Install/); but not something called "The OpenSolaris Distro". That's suboptimal, IMO, for sure. But given the current circumstances (we should have done an official distro project when we launched 2+ years ago, but we didn't), that compromise is better than risking this kind of repercussion, which I agree is a possibility: Previously, Josh Berkus wrote: "If we turn our backs on BelleniX and Nexenta and Schillix in order to make Indiana the exclusive OpenSolaris distribution, get ready to see enrollment in the OpenSolaris community drop by 50%."
