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

[Alan Burlison]

Al Hopper wrote:

>> I don't want to rain on your parade, but all those things you 
>> mentioned would have happened even if Indiana hadn't come along.  
>> Granted, they've probably happened a little faster, but they are all 
>> areas that were already being worked on.
> 
> Yes - I understand that.  Someone at the Summit said that the new 
> installer has been a work-in-progress for about 2 years (not sure how 
> accurate that number is).  And I understand that Indiana is acting as a 
> catalyst and focusing the various development teams on a common 
> completion timeline.  This will have a large and very positive impact on 
> the end user experience!

You original post implied to me at least that Indiana was the progenitor 
of those features.  Over the last 6 months or so there has been a 
tendency to rewrite opensolaris history to suit whatever is "soup de 
jour".  I think it is important that we keep clear about what happened, 
when and why.

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Alan Burlison
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