[indiana-discuss] Problem Statement for 2008.11

[Dennis Clarke]

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 10:41 AM, Michael Schuster
<Michael.Schuster at sun.com> wrote:
> Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:41 AM, Glynn Foster <Glynn.Foster at sun.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Hey,
>>
>> <snip snap>
>>
>> First *big* issue :
>>
>>    This should be on a wiki.
>>
>> Next *big* issue :
>>
>>    Ian Murdock is gone. His voice has not been heard for a very very long
>> time.
>>    This is NOT "indiana"
>
> why should the fact that the person who coined a phrase has (apparently)
> moved on in any way impact the use of the phrase? He used 'indiana' as a Sun
> employee, so the rights are with Sun, not with ian, IMO.

Firstly, the man is a visionary but we don't hear from him anymore.
Maybe there was too much screaming and kicking when he came in a shook
things up. I don't know. I am not in there.

Next, the term "indiana" confuses the hell out of users.

Q: What are you installing there?
A: OpenSolaris

Q: What are you running?
A: OpenSolaris

Q: That has ZFS on it?
A: Yes, this is OpenSolaris

Q: What is that image update thing your doing?
A: OpenSolaris and ZFS allow me to do full updtaes with rollbacks.

Now try to answer all those questions to a new user with the word
"Indiana" in there. It doesn't quite work now does it?

Unless this thing is a product named Indiana with support agreements
for Indiana then we should stop using the Indiana discuss mail list
and get onto the OpenSolaris band wagon.

Dennis