I have a bit more (sigh) legwork to do to finalize the lightweight TM license
that is needed to enable some kind of "based on OpenSolaris" or "includes
OpenSolaris technology" or "powered by OpenSolaris" tagline, that spells out
what standards need to be met in order to call yourself that.
It seems to make sense to have some kind of standard - I suppose it would be
confusing for customers to see a product that purports to be "based on
OpenSolaris" which does not include a single line of OpenSolaris source code.
We're aiming for a really low bar - something like any derived work that
contains at least 1 OpenSolaris source file - still need to noodle that one a
bit and I welcome comments.
And in the meantime, I'd love input, comments, votes on the 3 "taglines" I'm
considering.
PLS SEND THEM TO ME PRIVATELY if possible. I don't want you guys to influence
each other. I'll send out a summary of input received, I promise (although,
depending on when and how much input I get, the summary may not come out til
after my Aug vacation.)
- Based on OpenSolaris
- includes OpenSolaris technology
- Powered by OpenSolaris
The 3rd one has an alternate meaning - it could also be used to flag any system
that is running on the OpenSolaris bits.
Comments welcome.
Claire
p.s.
Dennis Clarke wrote:
On 7/15/05, Eric Boutilier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Because these forums are surely being read by many (probably thousands)
of people who are far less familiar with Solaris/OpenSolaris than the
people who post here, I'd like to strongly caution people about the use
of the phrase "on OpenSolaris"
Its like "runs on Linux" as opposed to "runs on Red Hat" or "Runs on
SUSE" or "runs on Windows NT 4.0" etc etc.
I think that runs on OpenSolaris is just fine for the sake of general
discussion really.
I have no idea how else to put it really.
Runs on Nevada ? Runs on snv_16 or nv_xx? I don't think that will help
people understand.
Dennis
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