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

[Joerg Schilling]

Mario Goebbels <me at tomservo.cc> wrote:

> >> I guess the point I was trying to make but forgot to add is that
> >> OpenSolaris as baseline compatibility tag is now wasted, unless the
> >> naming decision is reverted.
> > 
> > How so? A name can have multiple meanings as we have already discussed
> > so many times before these past weeks.
>
> It's just my opinion that if it's going to be used as compatibility
> indicator, there shouldn't be a distro called like it. Unless it's
> explicitely called "OpenSolaris Reference Distro".

An "OpenSolaris Reference Distro" cannot be a distro intended for real use
as an "OpenSolaris Reference Distro" needs to miss all additional software 
to allow a verification against the reference.

Jörg

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