[advocacy-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] OpenSolaris (TM)

[Martin Bochnig]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> [Moving over to trademark-policy-dev list...]
>>
>> Nicolas Dorfsman wrote:
>>     
>>> This should be on the policy : default options should create  
>>> compliant things.
>>>
>>> But compliant to what ? POSIX, UNIX, RFC, OpenSolaris ?
>>>       
>> How about "compliant to Solaris 10" as a starting place?
>>     
>
> If we are talking about the tar archive format, Solaris 10 would be a
> good gauge as Sun tar does not understand the non-POSIX GNU tar archive format.
>
> Jörg
>   

So far, so good: But gnu-tar does also have some easily re-achievable / 
clonable advantages that may matter to the "default customer", who isn't 
necessarily the most experienced one.
If you say, /usr/bin/tar shall never be replaced by gnu-tar, why is 
nobody working on bringing the positive usability aspects that gnu-tar 
_does_ feature to SVR4's tar?
It is especially its built-in ability to deal with gzip compressed 
archives, what comes into mind. And why not going ahead and being better 
than gtar: By also adding other compression formats as well (i.e. 
bzip2)? Or are licenses preventing that.
The infinite repetition of "gtar is not POSIX compliant" will not change 
customer behavior, anyways not beyond these few lists.

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%martin