Thanks Karl
[Message delivered by the Robinson Mobility Network] ----------Original Message---------- From: Linda Kateley <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, November 29, 2011 2:53 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Alasdair Lumsden <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [discuss] illumian On 11/27/11 7:49 PM, Alasdair Lumsden wrote: > Regarding the name, I never for a second thought picking OpenIndiana would > cause us so much grief. It was picked on purely logical grounds. When Sun > decided to create a usable distribution out of the OpenSolaris source code, > the project for it was Indiana. Since we're the continuation of that project, > but in the community, and since Solaris is trademarked, OpenIndiana just made > perfect sense to me. > > In Europe we have products and companies named after far more insane things, > like the Egg credit card, the Smile bank. Nobody bats an eyelid. Linux has > far stupider sounding names. "CentOS", "Gentoo" and "Ubuntu" all sound > ridiculous to me, but I think nothing of it. > > The people who originally seemed to revile most against OpenIndiana were the > IPS haters, the people burned within Sun by the project, so I just shrugged > it off. > > But if people do genuinely dislike it, if it does threaten the success of the > project, then I would happily consider taking the proposition of a name > change to our core developers. But we'd need to know for sure that it's an > issue, because changing it involves a significant amount of work. > > Regarding the embarrassing state of the website, unfortunately nobody with > any web design talents has stepped forward to assist with it. When the > project began one individual did come forward, but he insisted on using a > less common CMS (liferay) and he got bored before we could reach consensus on > how to move forward. Since then, nobody else has volunteered. We have a commitment to hire a real web designer for the web site. > > If I had more money I would pay because I can't bare to look at the website, > it pains me so much. I don't dare say a text based one like Debian's would be > better. But right now my priority is the distribution itself. > > ------------------------------------------- > illumos-discuss > Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now > RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175644-0c0ef58a > Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; > Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com -- Linda Kateley Global Evangelist and Community Manager (mobile) 612-807-6349 (email) [email protected] (skype) lkateley ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175622-9107bf1f Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?&; Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This communication (including all attachments) is confidential and is intended for the use of the named addressee(s) only and may contain information that is private, confidential, privileged, and exempt from disclosure under law. All rights to privilege are expressly claimed and reserved and are not waived. Any use, dissemination, distribution, copying or disclosure of this message and any attachments, in whole or in part, by anyone other than the intended recipient(s) is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender immediately, delete this communication from all data storage devices and destroy all hard copies. ------------------------------------------- illumos-discuss Archives: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/182180/=now RSS Feed: https://www.listbox.com/member/archive/rss/182180/21175430-2e6923be Modify Your Subscription: https://www.listbox.com/member/?member_id=21175430&id_secret=21175430-6a77cda4 Powered by Listbox: http://www.listbox.com
