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

[Stephen Lau]

Not completely, but they are somewhat in the sense that no other "pure 
community driven project" (e.g.: Belenix, Nexenta, Schillix, Martux, 
etc.) can call themselves "OpenSolaris" the same way Indiana can.

So in that respect, Indiana would have been 'specially blessed' (not 
necessarily 'especially blessed')

cheers,
steve

Patrick Finch wrote:
> Are being a "pure community driven project" and "especially blessed by 
> Sun" mutually exclusive?
> 
> Patrick
> 
> 
> Alan Coopersmith wrote:
>> Patrick Finch wrote:
>>> I agree on sponsoring.
>>>
>>> Concerning nomenclature: if I understand concerns about using the 
>>> name "OpenSolaris" as part / all of the name of a disto,  they are 
>>> 2-fold:
>>>
>>> i. Deprecates (unfairly) other OpenSolaris distros, and the excellent 
>>> work which has gone into creating them
>>>
>>> ii. Redefines what OpenSolaris is, from a code base and community to 
>>> code base, community and a bootable OS, to the point where the name 
>>> "OpenSolaris" is loaded with too much meaning.
>>
>> iii. Makes it clear that this distro is specially blessed by Sun, and
>> not a pure community-driven project, since only Sun has the ability to
>> grant use of the OpenSolaris trademark this way.
>>


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