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

[Mario Goebbels]

I guess the point I was trying to make but forgot to add is that
OpenSolaris as baseline compatibility tag is now wasted, unless the
naming decision is reverted.

-mg

> One way or another, should OpenSolaris take off as Sun hopes, and have
> entities of various sizes jump on the bandwagon and create distros, they
> WILL differ and be incompatible. Just like over in Linux land.
> 
> By then however, the OpenSolaris moniker will have been wasted because
> of the usual shitty marketing decisions. Sun's already starting to gain
> street cred for being annoying to deal with via OpenOffice. OO however
> has already a nice foothold and can afford some drama. OpenSolaris
> however can't (yet anyway).
> 
> I hope Ian and however else is responsible for that decision wise up and
> retract the distro name. They can claim that it was named "OpenSolaris
> DP" because it was a test of the OS codebase in the wild, to retcon
> everything, and no one would probably say anything.


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