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

[John Plocher]

[I'm close to 200 messages behind in this discussion at this point...]

Brandorr wrote:
>> The Linux world asserts that this is a feature.  Do you see it as a
>> bug or a feature for OpenSolaris?
>>
>> If it is a bug (as I believe), how do we fix it?
> 
> John this reads as if you believe the existence of Nexenta, Shillix,
> MartUX and Belenix are bugs? If so, I don't think it's the best way to
> get your point across to Joerg. ;)

At this point, all of "our" distros are relatively compatible with
each other, unlike the general Linux world.  If we can define (and
effectively sustain) a compatibility culture, we won't have this bug.

> John, in our trademark discussions you stated that OpenSolaris should
> not be used as a standalone noun. As in Joerg's screwdriver analogy.
> Am I missing something.

If we define a compatibility story, then, as Joerg says, it makes
sense to call the "thing that inplements and deploys exactly and only
those compatibility bits" OpenSolaris.

I don't believe for a minute that Indiana 10/07 is such a beast,
nor that Indiana 3/08 will limit itself to being only that subset.

   -John