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 _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
