[indiana-discuss] Name of Distro?

[Shawn Walker]

On 21/06/07, Ian Murdock <Ian.Murdock at sun.com> wrote:
> compatible doesn't cut it. I'm very surprised this argument
> doesn't resonate better around here. Do we really want that for Solaris?

Your argument is irrelevant. The point is that the use of a trademark
under the control of Sun makes this a Sun project, not a community
project.

It also in turn makes the Indiana project appear to be no more than
the Fedora project is accused of being, a way for RedHat to get "free
labor" and testing.

If you want to avoid another mistake, then make this a community
project, not a Sun one. Otherwise, you will have lost a lot of respect
in the minds of many.

Even if this is successful once you do name it whatever it is that you
have apparently decided to do so by fiat, you will have only proved
that Sun could care less about the efforts of the community that is
already here and has already spent many hours creating distributions
that are great in their own right.

Quite frankly, I absolutely refuse to be involved with a project that
is little more than something run by a dictator and is not a community
project.

This project is turning more and more into something that appears to
be little more than a PR stunt by an employee as a representative of
Sun and I have never been more outraged in the two years that I have
been part of this community.

So far every decision and bit I've seen about this project has been
discussed, designed, and proposed all internally to Sun before anyone
in the community ever saw it. Not only that, every time the community
disagrees with any decision being made, it appears as if it doesn't
matter anyway since apparently Sun has decided to hire someone to
solve all of their problems completely ignoring what the community has
tried to accomplish with their own distributions.

The issue of compatibility is not one that will be solved by a name.
It is a technical problem, not a naming one.

-- 
"Less is only more where more is no good." --Frank Lloyd Wright

Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
binarycrusader at gmail.com - http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/
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