On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 5:24 PM, John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > OpenSolaris is not a Project but the codebase for many projects. > > This is why we cannot have a distro called "OpenSolaris". > > Why is this a bad thing? IMO, it is not very confusing to be told > that the OpenSolaris distro is a product that is made up out of the > OpenSolaris codebase developed by the OpenSolaris Community over on > a web site called OpenSolaris.org.
A minor issue is that we've spent some time attempting to explain to people that this isn't the case. And while I support the general idea that there should be an OpenSolaris distribution, I would argue that it is the OpenSolaris community (or its elected representatives, the OGB) that should make such a decision, rather than having it forced on it from outside. And that, furthermore, if there were such an OpenSolaris distribution then it should be up to the OpenSolaris community (or its elected representatives, the OGB) to decide what that distribution should look like (or maybe just choose one of those available to us). Even if Indiana == OpenSolaris were the right decision, having it forced on the community is bound to create bad feeling and opposition. I'm not convinced that Indiana is that OpenSolaris distribution. If that positioning were dropped, then Indiana would be free to stand on its own as a truly remarkable piece of work, and the divisiveness that has ensued would not come about. And who knows, the community might then be able to adopt it as its own. -- -Peter Tribble http://www.petertribble.co.uk/ - http://ptribble.blogspot.com/ _______________________________________________ trademark-policy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/trademark-policy-dev
