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

[Joerg Schilling]

Al Hopper <al at logical-approach.com> wrote:

> In the real world, we know, intuitively, that there is no such thing 
> as a universal screw-driver.  We know that every toolbox contains many 
> screwdrivers and we give them different broad-based names to corral 
> them into general categories... like "philips screwdriver", 
> "flat-blade screwdriver".. blah, blah.

Even a Phlips screwdriver is unable to corrrectly deal with any cross recess
screw as Philips is just one of at least three _incompatible_ "cross recess" 
screw systems.

This is also a good example as "gimme a screwdriver" has the same level 
of incompleteness as "gimme OpenSolaris".

Jörg

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