[oi-dev] New Project Lead?

[Nick Zivkovic]

On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Joerg Schilling
<Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Jonathan Adams <t12nslookup at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 3 September 2012 16:34, Joerg Schilling
>> <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
>> <snip>
>> > Correct, OpenSolaris is an umbrella and we need to find a way to coordinate
>> > it's development to keep enough community behind OpenSolaris.
>>
>> except of course that we cannot and do not own any right to the name
>> "Solaris" in any way shape or form, hence the reason that we need to
>> refer to the OS/Network as "Illumos".
>>
>> for us, OpenSolaris is dead, because we cannot use the name.
>
> Some people created the fork "Illumos" but failed to get the whole community
> behind them, so using the name Illumos does not work.

Ok. I see. Can you please direct me to these other forks?

Also, explicit reasons for the lack of acceptance of Illumos by
"other" community members, would be helpful. We can learn from them,
and possibly make changes accordingly (open source, etc, etc).

>
> On the other side, nobody can forbid us to use "OpenSolaris" is a descriptive
> way.
>
> Jörg
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