[advocacy-discuss] OpenSolaris Branding Guidelines - an alternate proposal

[Nicolas Dorfsman]

Le 25 oct. 07 à 00:44, Martin Bochnig a écrit :
> Simon Phipps wrote:
>> On Oct 20, 2007, at 10:01, Stephen Lau wrote:
>>> We are not like Ubuntu in that our projects and our code target
>>> multiple distributions.  The work happening on Ubuntu's site
>>> ostensibly is all targeted towards Ubuntu.  The work happening on
>>> OpenSolaris.org targets multiple consolidations, multiple projects,
>>> and multiple distributions.
>> Except Ubuntu does result in multiple distributions - Edubuntu,
>> Kubuntu, Gobuntu, xubuntu to name but four.
>> As for not drawing parallels; I agree to the extent that we should
>> not actively model ourselves on another community. I believe that
>> highlighting the mis-match of expectations in the cases where some
>> people assert OpenSolaris is "just like the Linux kernel" as others
>> have done is important though. We are at a turning-point in the
>> OpenSolaris community, since it's clear (to me at least) that our
>> initial assumption of a kernel-based community with many external
>> distributions is no longer a good model. This is not least because
>> (as Ian points out) it fails to deliver the easy ability for there to
>> be a large pool of compatible applications.
>>
>> S.
> Finally, this sounds like you do not want anybody else to create their
> own distribution?

It seems to be a real turning-point for OpenSolaris community.
Martin has a point...how should we interpret your post ?


Nico.*