On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 12:08:12PM -0600, Jon Trulson wrote: > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>> More than 2 years ago, we did agreee that noone except Sun has the > >>> right to call a distro "OpenSolaris" and that Sun shoul/would not do this. > >>> > >>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called: > >>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...." > >>> > >>> I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause > >>> harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions. > >> > >> I have yet to see any qualifying statements that indicate exactly > >> *how* other distributions would be harmed. > > > > How about trying to prove that there is no such harm? > > > > How could that possibly be done? > > > It is obvious that if Sun calls a distro "OpenSolaris", many people believe > > that this is the one and only. > > > > FWIW, as a third party that develops software on Solaris, I would > welcome an 'OpenSolaris Reference' distribution. > > Without it, we would be forced to choose one or two of the dists > available to try to officially support, much as we have to do now on > Linux.
There's your example of harm; Jon Trulson would be supporting only
the reference distribution and not the other distros. This can be
expected to hold true for others. [1]
Ceri
[1] This can, of course, be seen to be a good thing for ISVs, but that's
not the question which was one of harm to other distros.
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