[advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [indiana-discuss] Indiana as the OpenSolaris xxxx distro (was Re: [smf-discuss] Review for 6608098)

[Martin Bochnig]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> Yep, Sara's on point.
>>
>> To me, this all comes down to the question: Is OpenSolaris just the
>> code base, or is it an operating system you can download and run?
>>     
>
> If OpenSolaris should be more than the codebase, we need to think about 
> namings in general.
>   

I certainly have to agree.

> Naming a distrio "OpenSolaris" would create the impression that there is only
> onle distribution and thus harm other distributions.
>   

But shouldn't distributors be permitted (if not required!) to use the 
brand "OpenSolaris" in (as addition to) their distros names, e.g. 
"SchilliX OpenSolaris", "Nextenda OpenSolaris" or "MartUX OpenSolaris" ?

Please see the discussion from some days ago.

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