[ogb-discuss] Sun's Responses to the OpenSolaris Trademark Questions

[Martin Bochnig]

> > Agreed.  However, IMHO, a binary "OpenSolaris" already exists in a
> > downloadable form: it's called Solaris Express Community Edition.
> 
> The thing that so many people already call or think *is* OpenSolaris
> online?
> 
> So why not use the name as people expect it to be used?
> 
> Having an OpenSolaris Distribution, such as Indiana, helps ease so
> many of the complaints users and others have had about SXCE (e.g.
> torrent, mirror sites, etc.).
> 
> I think meeting user expectations is more important than stroking egos.
> 
> -- 
> Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst


Isn't it Sun who is "stroking ego" here?
And when speaking about "meeting user expectations": Many many other users expect "OpenSolaris" to be the FREE kernel&&libs code base (believe me), and SXCE to be "Sun's OpenSolaris Distro", just as had been reiterated for over two years, until the release of Indiana.

No, wait a minute, now they have changed their mind:
Indiana.equals(OpenSolaris)==true
Consequently, if you take it all literally, SXCE seems to be based on Indiana now:

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/downloads/
"Solaris Express Community Edition is Sun's binary release for OpenSolaris developers (code named "Nevada"). It is built from the latest OpenSolaris source and additional technology that has not been published in the OpenSolaris source base."

This does cause confusion, rather than meeting user expectations.

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%martin