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

[Tim Foster]

On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 11:44 -0500, Shawn Walker wrote:
> I've been watching OpenSolaris since it first launched and I've seen
> more progress and interest in OpenSolaris since Project Indiana was
> announced than ever.

I agree, this is the impression I'm getting as well - it's not about
competing with ourselves, it's ultimately about having a larger number
of people use OpenSolaris, and calling something "OpenSolaris" seems
like a pretty basic thing that we can do *now* to help that cause.


If Indiana opens the doors to more people who eventually move to running
hacked versions of OpenSolaris on their Toaster or Train Set, or WebApp,
or TV[1], or whatever then that's a good thing for the community.



Dredging up the past, or looking at where we've come from wrt.
distributions isn't making forward progress. I say, let's run with
what's happening now, and see where it takes us. Come on in, the water's
fine!

> Stop focusing on yourselves; focus on the users. We need to do what's
> best for the community, not our egos.

+1

	cheers,
			tim

[1] Don't knock it, there's a precedent :-)
http://flickr.com/photos/timf/1638454799/
-- 
Tim Foster, Sun Microsystems Inc, Solaris Engineering Ops
http://blogs.sun.com/timf