[osol-mktg] Sponsor Project Indiana

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Wed Jun 6 08:29:33 PDT 2007


Patrick Finch wrote:
> Are being a "pure community driven project" and "especially blessed by 
> Sun" mutually exclusive?

They have been in the past - if Schillix, Belenix, Martux or Nexenta had
asked to be able to use the OpenSolaris name, they would likely have been
denied.    That it's an option now seems to be because a Sun executive is
pushing for this project.

Is that good or bad?   I don't know - but it's one of the issues that people
think about when naming a distro "OpenSolaris".

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering


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