On 01/11/2007, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 1-Nov-07, at 2:31 PM, Shawn Walker wrote: > > > On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > >> Menno Lageman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> As far as I know Ubuntu came to life as a Debian derivative. *After* > >>> that, others created their own Ubuntu derivatives such as Xubuntu, > >>> Kubuntu etc. So that is hardly comparable with our case. > >> > >> Ubuntu is more free than Debian as the e.g. provide a package for the > >> real cdrtools instead of the broken fork. > >> > >> Ubuntu != Debian > > > > My remarks were more to with Ubuntu derivatives than Debian. > > and they're wrong no matter how you slice it.
I'm going to have to agree to disagree. > if someone based a project off indiana and changed it around a lot, > then came back and declared their project the one true project > indiana, people would get pretty pissed off, and rightly so. > > now replace "Indiana" with "OpenSolaris" and you see where we are now. No, not really. Because I haven't seen the community declare it the one true project yet, so I have no reason to be concerned yet. I haven't seen any Sun press releases. All I have seen is a website update and a naming choice some folks don't agree with. > Similarly if PI continued to call itself Indiana to the exclusion of > all other indianas ad infinitum, nobody would have a problem with > that. It's not the control of the word that's the issue, it's that > "OpenSolaris" was usurped without any real meaningful consultation > > and yes, once again, we all recognize that legally sun can do whatever > they want with the trademark. We're not talking legalities here, we're > talking about the rightness in the moral sense of action. The problem with morals is that the definition of them varies by person. I see nothing immoral about the action taken today or yesterday. -- 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
