[pushing this BACK to trademark-policy-dev]
Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Although X and GNOME have strong connections into Sun, they are nothing
> specific to OpenSolaris.
Again, we get back to the (lack of an) operational definition of
OpenSolaris. Here's mine:
OpenSolaris (n) 1) the community organized around the open source
development efforts hosted on opensolaris.org. Many of the
components found there were part of Sun Microsystem's proprietary
Solaris product family, while others are integrations and
enhancements of 3rd party FOSS projects. Some notable ones
are the kernel (aka OS/Net, aka Nevada), kernel features
(such as device drivers, xVM, DTrace and ZFS), documentation,
I18N and L10N, clustering and HPC, installation & packaging,
printing, storage and storage administration, as well as
collections of 3rd party FOSS projects (SFW, the X Window
System, the GNOME desktop, development tools...).
(n) 2) a distro that showcases the above community.
If we were talking about a distro named "ON" or "Nevada", I'd
wholeheartedly agree with Brian and Joerg's perspective, but
we aren't - we are talking about our entire, inclusive community.
-John
