On 21/06/07, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Shawn -- how would you feel about naming a download ISO OpenSolaris in that scenario. (And of course assuming some kind of Community/Sun collaborative terms-of-use process.)
My issue is not with having a reference distribution or even a distribution that the community chooses as representative of our community. That is a commendable and worthy goal. My problem is with having a distribution that is named OpenSolaris that does not actually represent our community and that only Sun has the right to use in regards to naming and other trademark usages. As others mentioned before, the instant you call a distribution OpenSolaris, that automatically implies, by association, that all things that OpenSolaris.org does are represented within and that is a level of confusion that I think is far greater than having a "blindingly obvious" distribution available for download. By choosing to name the Indiana distribution "OpenSolaris" it denies the efforts of the existing distributions by propelling itself above others in officially "blessed" status. If any distribution should be made the official distribution of the community, it should be the result of a vote by the community and not by fiat of Sun. -- "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
