On 21/06/07, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
compatible doesn't cut it. I'm very surprised this argument doesn't resonate better around here. Do we really want that for Solaris?
Your argument is irrelevant. The point is that the use of a trademark under the control of Sun makes this a Sun project, not a community project. It also in turn makes the Indiana project appear to be no more than the Fedora project is accused of being, a way for RedHat to get "free labor" and testing. If you want to avoid another mistake, then make this a community project, not a Sun one. Otherwise, you will have lost a lot of respect in the minds of many. Even if this is successful once you do name it whatever it is that you have apparently decided to do so by fiat, you will have only proved that Sun could care less about the efforts of the community that is already here and has already spent many hours creating distributions that are great in their own right. Quite frankly, I absolutely refuse to be involved with a project that is little more than something run by a dictator and is not a community project. This project is turning more and more into something that appears to be little more than a PR stunt by an employee as a representative of Sun and I have never been more outraged in the two years that I have been part of this community. So far every decision and bit I've seen about this project has been discussed, designed, and proposed all internally to Sun before anyone in the community ever saw it. Not only that, every time the community disagrees with any decision being made, it appears as if it doesn't matter anyway since apparently Sun has decided to hire someone to solve all of their problems completely ignoring what the community has tried to accomplish with their own distributions. The issue of compatibility is not one that will be solved by a name. It is a technical problem, not a naming one. -- "Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
