On Nov 2, 2007, at 10:42, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:16 -0400, Ian Murdock wrote: >> I don't even know where to begin. > > You should start with the choice of name. > > Names are very important.
I don't agree Bill .. this focus on names and renaming and rebranding that seems to keep cropping up every couple of years around here looks (to me) more like a cult that keeps changing it's name in order to disassociate with their bad history and confuse new converts .. if we're not fixing the underlying process problems, masking it with a name change really doesn't do anything but expose the same sets of problems while exponentially adding new ones .. don't get me wrong, Open[ing] Solaris - absolutely huge, but arguing about what can be named OpenSolaris[TM] is almost like arguing about someone else named "Bill" (hmm .. wild Bill[TM] Hickok is souring my good name) and fearing that "Bill" the person might be confused with "bill" the financial statement i just got in the mail, or maybe that "Guy" the person[TM] is confused with "guy" what Guy really is .. language is really about use (apologies to wittgenstein), and naming should really wash out into usage .. call it "oscar odd couple release" for all i [we?] care .. as long as we're talking about the same thing and the underlying bits are good it'll develop a life of it's own without all this pointless name wrangling just my $2 (inflation you know) --- .je
