On 2021-05-27 19:44, John Howard wrote:
Might I suggest the OpenSolaris brand that Oracle seems to be
exterminating. The fact people cannot use the brand Unix to identify a
Linux distro further isolates the spread of Unix. FreeBSD and OpenSolaris
derivatives are essentially the only Unix systems. MacOS is from FreeBSD
but it is not popularized as a Unix.
OpenSolaris is the origin of OI and Illumos. Illumos Foundation
surprisingly does not exist. The purpose of a Foundation is to enable
unifying support for a brand product. The first step is owning the brand
name for products.
Project OpenIndiana is not a brand name that makes sense. I still see no
connection to Indiana. When the general public thinks of Ada, it is not
the computer language but a group of dentists.
I would say you're very much on target here.
The only "hitch" I see here; is that when Oracle bought SUN, they also
bought all the Sun brands. One of which is OpenSolaris. As you say, they
clearly give a shit about it. But unless asked, they might throw a fit. If
anyone attempted to use it without their "expressed permission".
--Chris
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