On 01/11/2007, Brandorr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/1/07, Shawn Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/11/2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >Sorry, but that would not be true. Indiana is the result of work from > > > >more than just Sun folks. It includes ksh93 for example, and it > > > >includes efforts by other non-Sun affiliated folks as well. Calling it > > > >Sun OpenSolaris would be inaccurate. > > > > > > > > > What bits does Indiana include which are not Sun originated which are > > > not also found in say, SXCE? (I.e., ksh93 and caiman do not count) > > > > That seems like arbitrary criteria. It seems will have to agree to disagree. > > How about this one. Sun Solaris contains bash, gtar, gzip, etc. Does > that make it not Sun Solaris? RedHat Enterprise Linux, contains bash, > gtar, gzip, etc. Does that not make it *RedHat* Enterprise Linux?
Actually, if you ask the FSF. It makes it RedHat *GNU*/Linux <g> But I digress ;) > I don't see what there is to disagree about. Making these kinds of > analogies only hurts your credibility. It seems you are making up I don't care a whit about credibility. I care about three things: 1) code 2) community 3) progress Project Indiana has all three as far as I'm concerned. Although I would have appreciated a vote on the name for #2. > arguments to justify your position that OpenSolaris=Indiana, and that > it is not Sun/Ian Murdock/Sun Marketing execs unilaterally making this > decision. Because I simply don't believe that. That's what it comes down to. Your belief and mine just don't coincide. I'm sorry you can't believe that no one could possibly come to a different conclusion; but I have. > Fact is going into the Summit, I was for it also, but the heavy > handedness of how Sun's OpenSolaris marketing team is handling the > Indiana naming process, has turned me off on the whole idea of > OpenSolaris = Indiana. I don't think OpenSolaris == Indiana. I think Indiana is merely a consoliation of what was already OpenSolaris wrapped up in a pretty package. -- 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
