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

[Joerg Schilling]

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

> Martin Bochnig wrote:
> >>> 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).
>
>
> I think you have it - exactly.
>
> This is like calling the automobiles built in the BMW Factory "BMWs".

Does BMW get it's cars from an open cummunity?

Bad example.....

Jörg

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