[indiana-discuss] Re: [indiana=discuss] Name of Distro?

[Sara Dornsife]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 20/06/07, Anil Gulecha <anil.verve at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On 6/20/07, Shawn Walker <binarycrusader at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > On 20/06/07, Sara Dornsife <Sara.Dornsife at sun.com> wrote:
>> > >
>> > > >
>> > > > Though I also like the point you're making too. Having a catchy 
>> name is a
>> > > > good thing for spreading awareness.
>> > >
>> > > Calling it OpenSolaris would be a good thing for building 
>> awareness of
>> > > OpenSolaris :)
>> >
>> > But rather unfair because the community was told they couldn't name
>> > their distribution that.
>> >
>>
>> I would tend to agree with this. This is unfair to the Opensolaris
>> distributions that are already available.
>>
>> Something along the lines that would indicate that it is the official
>> distro planned/created by the community @ opensolaris.org could be
>> considered.
>
> I just think that a project that is supposedly by the community
> (Indiana) should have to follow the same rules as the rest of the
> community.
>
> I also tend to prefer the approach of having a different name for
> Indiana because I think RedHat has proved that it is a good idea
> business and other wise to have the "community distribution" be named
> significantly differently than the official one.
And it isn't called Solaris.....