[ can we please drop some of the lists from Cc: I'm getting many copies
of each of these. I've set Reply-To: to advocacy-discuss, as this has
gone beyond establishing guidelines for the opensolaris brand, as
opposed to discussion about naming a single distribution
"OpenSolaris". ]
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:59 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > We had this discussion long ago and we decided that it was a bad idea to
> > > allow
> > > a distribution to use the name OpenSolaris. I do not see anything that
> > > would
> > > change the constraints here.
> >
> > Who's this mysterious we?
>
> The OpenSolaris community. Maybe you have not been in that time.
But communities priorities change over time: what was true and good for
the community back in 2005 may not be true now - we've all grown up a
lot over the last 2 years, along with our operating system.
We're hearing the same voices with the same opinions now on this naming
discussion, I'm not sure we're getting anywhere. What's next ?
cheers,
tim
--
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf
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