On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 15:31:16 PST "Richard L. Hamilton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Do we want to expend resources on being control freaks, or would we rather > apply them to > * bugfixes > * drivers > * expanded interoperability > * features > * ... > ? > > IMO, most of the control issues will reach reasonable compromises in time. > > Although it seems IMO that many would regard it as a gesture of good faith > (outweighing > any end-user confusion) if Sun would clearly label Indiana as > "Sun's redistibutable OpenSolaris distribution", and not simply as > OpenSolaris, leaving > the door open for other distributions to eventually be called on equal > footing things such as > "Shillix - Jörg's redistributable OpenSolaris distribution", or whatever. > Ok, maybe it gets > listed first, rather than listing distros chronologically (which IIRC would > put Schillix first), > but what the heck. The only confusion seems to be the perception that > clueless newbies > should have just one choice if they want to "install OpenSolaris". Even > clueless newbies > should IMO be able to handle multiple choices, as long as it's possible to > make a simple > and clear statement of what they have in common (codebase, certain measures of > compatibility, ...). > From what I've read, there is already talk underway about clearly defining > permitted uses > of the trademark. This should IMO be sufficient for reasonable people. Even > if "we" had > "our" own website and trademark, surely it would be silly to simply treat it > as if it meant whatever > we wanted it to mean today, rather than having a very clear idea of what it > meant (which I'm > sure not everyone would quickly agree on even then). > lol.. fwiw- i've never in my life encountered a mailing list with more subscribers who cannot seem to configure their mua's to wrap at standard 72 characters... this one seems to be >100... no offense, but talk about newbies... >;^D -- Best regards, Ken Gunderson Q: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation. A: Why is putting a reply at the top of the message frowned upon? _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
