[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Tim Foster]

[ can we please drop some of the lists from Cc: I'm getting many copies
of each of these.  I've set Reply-To: to advocacy-discuss, as this has
gone beyond establishing guidelines for the opensolaris brand, as
opposed to discussion about naming a single distribution
"OpenSolaris". ]

On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 10:59 +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> > > We had this discussion long ago and we decided that it was a bad idea to allow
> > > a distribution to use the name OpenSolaris. I do not see anything that would
> > > change the constraints here.
> >
> > Who's this mysterious we?
> 
> The OpenSolaris community. Maybe you have not been in that time.

But communities priorities change over time: what was true and good for
the community back in 2005 may not be true now - we've all grown up a
lot over the last 2 years, along with our operating system. 

We're hearing the same voices with the same opinions now on this naming
discussion, I'm not sure we're getting anywhere. What's next ?

	cheers,

		tim
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf