"Dennis Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > James Carlson wrote: > >> Jim Grisanzio writes: > >>> Joerg Schilling wrote: > >>> > >>>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called: > >>>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...." > >>> Why would "Sun OpenSolaris" make sense? Actually, that expression has > >>> been used (incorrectly) in the media, and it's only added to the > >>> confusion. Also, isn't it a benefit for the distros to share in the use > >>> of the brand? > >> > >> I think it makes a lot of sense, by analogy to Linux. You can't > >> "install Linux" -- without getting an immediate "which one?" question. > > > > You see this as a feature? Spend any time trying to build products > > for or around "Linux", and you'll quickly start to see it as a bug. > > Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system. > > Solaris is Solaris which is UNIX(tm). > > If you want UNIX then you can go looking for AIX or HPUX or SCO(?) or > Solaris. I was always under the impression that OpenSolaris was the > community project that worked with and dealt with the source code to > Solaris.
A good example! Let us decide that Sun first needs to call Solaris "UNIX" before a OpenSolaris based distro is allowed to call itself "OpenSolaris". Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system but you cannot call it "UNIX", it is still Solaris. Jörg -- EMail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] (uni) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org