On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 1:53 PM, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > [redirecting to the T&B discussion alias, sorry I didn't catch this > earlier...] > > > John Sonnenschein wrote: > > But still, If someone wanted a different design paradigm altogether, > > One of the paradigms of agile programming is starting with the simplest > solution. Extra functionality can then be added later. I don't believe > that the T&B stuff we have now precludes even the extreme innovation you > postulate because A) the policy can evolve, and B) the experience I have > with ~20 years of Solaris shows that extreme innovation can still happen > in environments that value backwards compatibility. > > If you still see a problem, please suggest wording changes that would better > deal with this situation.
It's not a problem of wording, it's a problem of how strict the metric for "compatibility" and "sameness" to carry the "- an OpenSolaris distro" tag will be. Does changing the packaging system change it? the windowing system? the userspace? the order of directories in $PATH? the desktop background? -- PGP Public Key 0x437AF1A1 Available on hkp://pgp.mit.edu
