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[Patrick Finch]

Some confusion for some people perhaps, but it is possible to 
communicate a change.  For the last 2 years I have been dealing with the 
confusion that "OpenSolaris" is not a bootable OS.

I can understand that there might be objections to naming a distro 
"OpenSolaris" for other reasons, but I don't accept that the risk of 
confusing people should disqualify the idea.

Patrick



Joerg Schilling wrote:
> 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
>