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

[Shawn Walker]

On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
>
> > Ubuntu thrived despite Debian's long years of existence.
> >
> > Slackware continues despite RedHat's rise.
> >
> > SUSE continues despite RedHat.
> >
> > Mandraiva continues despite ... etc.
>
> Does Suse claim to publish "Linux"?
> Does Ubuntu claim to publish "Linux"?
> Does Redhat claim to publish "Linux"?
> Does Mandriva claim to publish "Linux"?

That isn't the same. Linux is a kernel; the material provided by
OpenSolaris comprises a complete operating system.


-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/

"We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all
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are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall