[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] screwdrivers - Re: [trademark-policy-dev] [indiana-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Derek Cicero]

Brandorr wrote:
> On 11/1/07, Derek Cicero <derek.cicero at sun.com> wrote:
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>>>> This is also a good example as "gimme a screwdriver" has the same level
>>>>> of incompleteness as "gimme OpenSolaris".
>>>> The Linux world asserts that this is a feature.  Do you see it as a
>>>> bug or a feature for OpenSolaris?
>>> The OpenSolaris community is not in a fight, so I would like to see
>>> that there is a help on www.opensolaris.org on this topic.
>>>
>>> There is more than one distro, so I would like to see something like
>>> a "get Opensolaris" page that explains the background. We already
>>> have something similar in the "download" section.
>> Each distro has their own site (many courtesy of Genunix) where they can
>> explain the specifics of what they offer in detail. Our downloads page
>> has pointers to each of those sites.
>>
>> I don't think we need to add every distro to the os.org home page
>> anymore then we'd put every distro on the Nexenta home page.
> 
> Why not? Is there something special about Sun's distro, that gives it
> the right to sit on the homepage? Is it more functional than the other
> distros? More complete? More stable? Or is it that it's just because
> it is a "Sun distro" that Sun is implicitly buying advertising space
> on the homepage? (And usurping the community's name for it's distro in
> the process).

The point is that each distro has the right and ability to create and 
control their own site. We never said os.org would be the distrowatch 
for all OpenSolaris-related releases. As it stands we've placed all the 
distros on the Downloads page together.

As I mentioned at the summit and on the website-discuss list, once this 
project gets out of the 'preview' phase we'll probably move the 
OpenSolaris distro to a separate mini-site on os.org and revert the old 
/os/ home page back.

Derek

> 
>> Derek
>>> Jörg
>>>
>>
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>> Derek Cicero
>> Program Manager
>> Solaris Kernel Group, Software Division
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Derek Cicero
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