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[Joerg Schilling]

Alan Coopersmith <alan.coopersmith at sun.com> wrote:

> 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".

If Sun would name a distro "opensolaris" this would cause a big confusion
for many people.

Jörg

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