On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Peter Tribble <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
I don't believe such a thing will ever work. I think Debian is proof that a completely democracy-based process to a distribution leads to a stagnant distribution that few people want to use and a bad reputation among companies. Despite Debian's vaunted stability, they have the least ISV support of any well-known GNU/Linux distribution. I strongly believe that you must have a corporation helping drive a project: Ubuntu, Fedora, etc. are all proof of that to me. > 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. I am. Look at the press. Long before Sun ever announced or decided that Indiana was OpenSolaris, the press was already calling it OpenSolaris, and a preview of what was to come in Solaris. Many users and technology enthusiasts are excited, nay elated, at seeing the fruits of years of labour from many hard-working engineers presented in Indiana. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ trademark-policy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/trademark-policy-dev
