[indiana-discuss] [advocacy-discuss] [ogb-discuss] Indiana as

[Bob Netherton]

> > Naming a distrio "OpenSolaris" would create the
> impression that there is only
> onle distribution and thus harm other distributions.
> 
> I don't agree with the implication there. 

Same here, and apologies if I am trampling over ground already
plowed, but the lack of an OpenSolaris distribution has been a
weakness.   It's a community, a codebase and should also be a
distro.  No reason that it should harm others with varying degrees of
derivation, especially when the derivative is quite interesting
(a kIndiana or southbeach - that might use xfce for example).
Anyone up for a qIndiana to port the old Qube bits from Linux ?

> That said, I think overloading the OpenSolaris term
> more than once is a bad idea. 

Yep - keep it simple.  if you have to take a breath while saying it -
too complicated.

> As a civilian my first
> thought is not "what do I think?", it is "does what I
> think matter?" 

If not then this whole grand experiment has been a failure.
It does matter, on many levels.
 
> So on the name branding topic, since Sun Microsystems
> is the entity doing all the work, I want to know what
> Sun Microsystems wants to do, and then I want to
> comment on that.  I don't want to waste my time
> talking about domains that aren't even on the plate.

Fair enough.


> As such I'd like to see the Sun Microsystems branding
> proposal for Indiana and OpenSolaris put up on the
> appropriate project page (
> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/ ? ) so
> that all the civilians know what the people behind
> Indiana want to do.  Then we can all be "on the same
> page", as they say.

A grand idea.


bob
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