[This mail represents my opinion, not my employer’s of course] I have read through all of the email copied to opensolaris-discuss. I applaud the work to get the first Indiana milestone released. I understand that many in the community feels like their rights were usurped through the use of the name OpenSolaris for this reference distro.
In the spirit of forward progress, I propose the following: > Keep “OpenSolaris” as the name of the community and the open-source technology > Name the reference distro something else. Max and I were IM-ing this morning and came up with a suggested name for the reference distro: LibraSolaris Reasons: > It sounds like a geeky misspelling of “Libre” which is latin for “free” (as > in speech, not beer) > Libra is a constellation which is a collection of stars, not just a single > “sun”. > The mascot could be the constellation, which are the scales, which suggest > justice > it kind of trips off the tongue to this English speaker (I can imagine the > chants rising up at the next developer summit…) Counter arguments – got a million of course – > It’s confusing to have a different name than “OpenSolaris” > Oh, I can think of more, but why not love the idea a little You can +1 if you think it’s a good idea, if not I won’t be hurt. Dave -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
