On Feb 17, 2008 12:04 AM, Alan DuBoff <alan.duboff at sun.com> wrote:
> > The worst we could find out is that it is not possible under any > circumstances. In that case I say we try to find any name that is > different from Solaris, so that we can move forward. > > Maybe we should call it the OpenUNNIX. (un-nix) > I think anything related to unix, solaris, or any product being made in the software industry today will be too hot to handle except by layers of lawyers. I suggest wadjatos.org. References are obscure enough, yet findable. Also, eohos.org. Pronunciation is left as an exercise to the reader. References again are obscure enough. The two are related though. wadjatos returns zero result in google, but could be confused with wadgetos (an OS written in JavaScript!). And they somehow relate to SMI. In any case, people need to get off their high horse and try to not posture with high-falutin' names. Who though that "Firefox" would become so famous? (more famous than Solaris even?) Piggybacking a brand would be so wrong, so SMI-like, but wrong. If you're gonna change the name, make it something completely new, so you're not out carrying baggage around. Look at the car makers: they invent words to put on their cars and sell them worldwide. The OS Formerly Known As OpenSolaris (tosfkaos-- googling brings up discussion about similar questioning on IBM mainframes) can do this too. Pick a weird name, a strange name, a name that will not be swallowed by the past. A name for the future. Call it mountainos.org if you like (you'd have to contend with typos of mountainous as challengers, but there are only 375 google results, so I suppose there's no OS out there calling itself mountain. Update: There is a Wolf Mountain Operating System out there, whose owner is apparently lawsuit-happy ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_V._Merkey). Nice... I guess one does have to be careful picking a name these days. Queue the Lawyers. -- Chris Mahan http://www.christophermahan.com/ chris.mahan at gmail.com chris_mahan at yahoo.com cell 818.943.1850 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/ogb-discuss/attachments/20080217/3693d580/attachment.html>
