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

[Martin Bochnig]

Jim Grisanzio wrote:
> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>
>   
>> I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
>> "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
>>     
>
> Why would "Sun OpenSolaris" make sense? Actually, that expression has 
> been used (incorrectly) in the media, and it's only added to the 
> confusion. Also, isn't it a benefit for the distros to share in the use 
> of the brand?
>
> Jim
>   

It is the same as with all (super-)classes of objects, versus their 
derived sub-classes, or even _instances_ of objects of the corresponding 
classes.
Shouldn't you normally strive to strictly avoid referencing an instance 
versus the actual class in the same (identical) manner?

Renaming "Indiana" to "OpenSolaris": Wouldn't that be like renaming the 
brand "Crysler" to "Automibile"?
IMO a "Crysler" is not equal to "Automobile". It would be a subclass of 
it (with more nested subclasses and then n-millions of instances/leaf 
nodes).
Renaming "Indiana" to "Sun OpenSolaris" would make much more sense to 
me, because that's just what it is (independently from how it may or may 
not be called at the end of the day).

Yes, this has been discussed "iteratively" (in fact rather recursively).
And not much progress has been made in terms of (binding) community 
findings.
Prepared for cycling through it another time ...

Martin