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

[Stephen Lau]

Sara Dornsife wrote:
> 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.

And when you go to Sun's Solaris Express page and download Solaris 
Express, you get Solaris Express.  And when you go to Belenix's page and 
download Belenix, you get Belenix.

... the better analogy (for our current situation) is you go to 
http://www.linux.org

Do you get Linux?  No, you get information about Linux with pointers to 
various distributions of Linux.

... not unlike what you get at opensolaris.org.

cheers,
steve
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