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

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> > More than 2 years ago, we did agreee that noone except Sun has the
> > right to call a distro "OpenSolaris" and that Sun shoul/would not do this.
> >
> > I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
> > "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
> >
> > I have problems if this was not labelled with "Sun" as this would cause
> > harm to other existing OpenSolaris based distributions.
>
> I have yet to see any qualifying statements that indicate exactly
> *how* other distributions would be harmed.

How about trying to prove that there is no such harm?

It is obvious that if Sun calls a distro "OpenSolaris", many people believe 
that this is the one and only.

Jörg

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