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

[Martin Bochnig]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> John Plocher <John.Plocher at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>>  >> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>     
>>>> I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause
>>>> harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions.
>>>>         
>>> Shawn Walker wrote:
>>> I have yet to see any qualifying statements that indicate exactly
>>> *how* other distributions would be harmed.
>>>       
>> I *think* Joerg is referring to the classic channel partner -vs- direct
>> sales problem - if the OpenSolaris Community has its own distro, where
>> is there room for other distros to compete?
>>     
>
> You make an important mistake here: Indiana is not a community initated 
> distro but a _Sun_ initiated one.
>
> SchilliX was the first community initiaded OpenSolaris distro but Sun
> did not like to help with this distro.
>
> It is most unprobable that Indiana will be _the_ OpenSolaris distribution
> of the community as it was not "the community" that did decide to start the
> project. We could have a real community distribution if Sun did help with 
> SchilliX, but I did get the answer: "no, we definitely won't do that" from many
> sites insite Sun. 
>
> There are already several independent OpenSolaris distributions and you could 
> not roll back the years.... The chance for a _single_ OpenSolaris distro as
> a joint effort from Sun and the community has been missed because Sun was not
> ready for this at the time when it had been possible.
>
> Sun could have a much better stand in the OSS world if there was a clear 
> commitment to community originated efforts like BerliOS, Blastvave and SchilliX.
>
> Jörg
>
>   


Nobody wants to hear this.
Write a nice mail stating "let's stop discussing about the name, let's 
just bring it out ... and then let's see" and even one of the highest 
bosses will respond.
(seen today)
And in terms of Blastwave: I cannot make any statement (as I don't know 
the details) to which extend it has been Blastwave's own decision to 
mostly stay out of opensolaris.org. The good climate between the 
Director of Blastwave and a top OGB member makes me wonder. But if no 
person ever responds to my Blastwave related questions, I hardly have 
any other choice, than to guess.
It is not my business? Well, if this is a community driven framework 
here, then .....

%martin