[ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Sponsor Project Indiana

[Laurent Blume]

Simon Phipps a écrit :
> I'm afraid I don't agree on either count.
> 
> This is an engineering project. It is not Marketing or Advocacy. It
> should be in a place where co-development engineers will participate.
> That is not here.

Agreed with that.

> Secondly, the name. If there is exactly one distribution developed
> within the OpenSolaris community, it will be called "the OpenSolaris
> distribution" whatever artificial attempts are made to name it something
> else.

What is the OpenSolaris community in that case? Does that mean that the
current distros are being done by people somehow outside it?

Honestly, I've noted that there is already quie a confusion about what
«OpenSolaris» is. Many people I know, who are not (yet) Sun users, do
believe it's an actual OS similar to Solaris, but, well, «Open», more
Linux-like, maybe.
Some also seem to think that SX <=> OpenSolaris. Or that Nexenta <=>
OpenSolaris.
I've seen threads on the OS.o lists about «running things on
OpenSolaris» (which meant «running things on all distros based on
OpenSolaris«).

Anyway, unless a very, very strong communication effort is made to
clarify that, there's no way us contributors can influence what the rest
of the world will call us. Remember that today, Linux <=> Red Hat for
many people. And this is not something that I would like to happen in
our community, one distro becoming the beacon of all attention from the
outside.

Laurent
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