Shawn Walker 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. > > If, as you say, we have much more variance right now between > OpenSolaris distributions than usage of the trademark should be > restricted accordingly. > > Setting user expectations should be a primary goal for any distribution. >
And differentiating. Why would/should a user chose one distribution over another? It's not solely based on what it is called, but what it offers. Like with Ubuntu, which keeps getting brought up, each distro targets a specific market. Variations are what are all the distros should be going for, as has always been the case. And with good TM guidelines in place, we can form a family of compatible distributions that focus on different areas and carry the OpenSolaris name. I have yet to find any fault in anything Shawn has said. It's getting a little creepy. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/advocacy-discuss/attachments/20071031/ba85adc2/attachment.html>
