On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > Really? Everyone else, including OpenSolaris Engineering, and everyone > > I know within Solaris engineering had that understanding. > > I think that's my point. *within Solaris engineering*; it was very > poorly communicated to external people.
No, it was clearly communicated to me as an external party as part of the pilot program and was a centerpiece of most discussions I had with Sun folks about OpenSolaris. The community needed to own the name, otherwise we all felt that it'd be crippled. And, we were repeatedly assured by Sun that such crippling would not happen. -- justin
