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[Sara Dornsife]

Joerg Schilling wrote:
> Patrick Finch <Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
>   
>> 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.
>>     
>
> Do you like to recommend to use the name "diesel" as brand name for
> diesel oil product?
>   

I don't know about that, but I do know that when I go to Fedora or 
Ubuntu or OpenOffice or Netbeans or Eclipse or PostgreSQL or SugarCRM 
(and so on), I do download something by the same name. It is common 
practice and expected.

> There are other similar cases. People just did learn that "OpenSolaris"
> is not a product name but the name for a software base.
>
> Jörg
>
>   
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