On 01/11/2007, Mario Goebbels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> I guess the point I was trying to make but forgot to add is that
> >> OpenSolaris as baseline compatibility tag is now wasted, unless the
> >> naming decision is reverted.
> >
> > How so? A name can have multiple meanings as we have already discussed
> > so many times before these past weeks.
>
> It's just my opinion that if it's going to be used as compatibility
> indicator, there shouldn't be a distro called like it. Unless it's
> explicitely called "OpenSolaris Reference Distro".

Which wouldn't help the current situation as people would likely still
be incensed that anyone would dare call themselves OpenSolaris
anything (well at least in the distro name itself). This has echoes of
Nexenta's initial mistake of calling themselves GNU/Solaris.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all
junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics
are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall
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