[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Joerg Schilling]

John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:

> Maybe we don't have to reconcile them, because they are /different/
> things.  Which of the following are OpenSolaris?  Duh, they all are.
> They simply have different audiences:
>
>      The OpenSolaris Operating System:
> 	At the minimalist end, we have a "miniroot" consisting

...

> Today we have SX, SXDE, Schillix, Belinix, MartUX and Nexenta
> as examples of various targeted distros.  If I have a binary
> program (say, oracle or my company's accounting package...),
> and I want to pick a distro,
> 	Should I /expect/ my application to just work on it?
> 	/Will/ it just work?
> 	Does the distro owner have any expectations in this regard?
>     and most importantly,
> 	How would I tell?

More than 2 years ago, we did agreee that noone except Sun has the 
right to call a distro "OpenSolaris" and that Sun shoul/would not do this.

I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
"Sun OpenSolaris ...."

I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause
harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions.

Jörg

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