[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> On 31/10/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> > "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> >
> > > > It is obvious that if Sun calls a distro "OpenSolaris", many people believe
> > > > that this is the one and only.
> > >
> > > I don't believe that for a moment. Going to ubuntu.com only lets me
> > > download Ubuntu easily; but there are links that go off to other
> > > places where you can get Kubuntu, Edubuntu, etc. Many people do know
> > > that other "flavours" of Ubuntu exist.
> >
> > With current OpenSolaris distros, we have much more variance in the feeling
> > than with different ubuntu variants.
>
> Which is an interesting tidbit, but doesn't disprove my point.
>
> Remember that one of the goals in using the trademark is to set user
> expectations.

This is simple: just set up a web page that points to all OpenSolaris based 
distributions.

You cannot install "OpenSolaris" but an OpenSolaris based distribution.

Jörg

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