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

[Joerg Schilling]

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

> Joerg Schilling wrote:
> > You make an important mistake here: Indiana is not a community initated 
> > distro but a _Sun_ initiated one.
>
> You keep asserting this, as if anything done with or by people working
> for Sun has no validity.
>
> Bullshit.

Would you please use a less unfriendly wording?


> If 95% of the people working on opensolaris things are Sun Employees,
> then (in your perspective) 95% of the things done here aren't
> community efforts.  Hey, we are OpenSolaris Community members also!
>
> > SchilliX was the first community initiaded OpenSolaris distro but Sun
> > did not like to help with this distro.
>
> I'd say, rather, that Sun had its hands full with launching the whole
> opensolaris effort, and didn't have the time, resources, connections
> to the right people and/or legal ability to do the things needed to
> make Schillix happen.  Transforming that complexity into a disparaging
> "Sun did not like to help" is a  bit much.

People did accuse that I did not try to create a community and for this 
reason, I need to explain that Sun was not interested in such a community.


Jörg

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