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

[Joerg Schilling]

"Dennis Clarke" <dclarke at blastwave.org> wrote:

>
> > James Carlson wrote:
> >> Jim Grisanzio writes:
> >>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
> >>>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
> >>> Why would "Sun OpenSolaris" make sense? Actually, that expression has
> >>> been used (incorrectly) in the media, and it's only added to the
> >>> confusion. Also, isn't it a benefit for the distros to share in the use
> >>> of the brand?
> >>
> >> I think it makes a lot of sense, by analogy to Linux.  You can't
> >> "install Linux" -- without getting an immediate "which one?" question.
> >
> > You see this as a feature? Spend any time trying to build products
> > for or around "Linux", and you'll quickly start to see it as a bug.
>
> Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system.
>
> Solaris is Solaris which is UNIX(tm).
>
> If you want UNIX then you can go looking for AIX or HPUX or SCO(?) or
> Solaris. I was always under the impression that OpenSolaris was the
> community project that worked with and dealt with the source code to
> Solaris.

A good example!

Let us decide that Sun first needs to call Solaris "UNIX" before a 
OpenSolaris based distro is allowed to call itself "OpenSolaris".

Solaris is a UNIX(tm) system but you cannot call it "UNIX", it is still Solaris.


Jörg

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