[oi-dev] OI Foundation

Gerard Arthus garthus801 at gmail.com
Fri May 28 03:49:42 UTC 2021


I would actually be for Open Solaris and would prefer to see Solaris
associated with the branding. What do others think?

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On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 10:47 PM John Howard <echosoft.llc at gmail.com> wrote:

> Might I suggest the OpenSolaris brand that Oracle seems to be
> exterminating.  The fact people cannot use the brand Unix to identify a
> Linux distro further isolates the spread of Unix.  FreeBSD and OpenSolaris
> derivatives are essentially the only Unix systems.  MacOS is from FreeBSD
> but it is not popularized as a Unix.
>
> OpenSolaris is the origin of OI and Illumos.  Illumos Foundation
> surprisingly does not exist.  The purpose of a Foundation is to enable
> unifying support for a brand product.  The first step is owning the brand
> name for products.
>
> Project OpenIndiana is not a brand name that makes sense.  I still see no
> connection to Indiana.  When the general public thinks of Ada, it is not
> the computer language but a group of dentists.
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