On 31/10/2007, Ceri Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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]
But companies already do that in the GNU/Linux world today and no reference distribution exists. So therefore, I would argue it is not harm, but help. So then, if you must conclude it is harmful, I would conclude that it is less harmful. People can choose whatever they want to support. All the proposal does is give them an incentive to focus on something and help set expectations for users. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
