[osol-mktg] "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron

[Eric Boutilier]

Because these forums are surely being read by many (probably thousands)
of people who are far less familiar with Solaris/OpenSolaris than the
people who post here, I'd like to strongly caution people about the use
of the phrase "on OpenSolaris" -- especially saying something resides
or runs "on OpenSolaris"[1]. It's very misleading and causes people to
believe that we (Sun) have produced an open-source (i.e. modify'able,
redistributable) OpenSolaris CD/DVD offering.

OpenSolaris is a developer program built around the OpenSolaris
source-tree. But OpenSolaris is absolutely _not_ the name of an
operating system distro.

In my view, it'd be much better to say that things run on (or reside on,
or whatever) _an implementation_ of OpenSolaris, e.g. "the xyz
implementation of OpenSolaris"; or if you want to be more specific:
Solaris Express, Solaris n (e.g. Solaris 10), or SchilliX, whatever the
case may be.

--Eric

[1] Doing a quick search in the recent archives, I found it was used
    this way in three different threads, by different people each time:

    Subject: Feature request
    Subject: KDE 3.4.1 Solaris 10: Source Code Patches
    Subject: developing free software for OpenSolaris
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