[oi-dev] OI Foundation

[Chris]

On 2021-05-27 21:42, Tony Brian Albers wrote:
> Gerard Arthus wrote:
>> Should it be Illumos or Open Indiana; I guess the name has to be decided
>> upon first .
>> 
>> Gerry
>> 
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>> On Thu, May 27, 2021 at 11:54 PM Joshua M. Clulow via oi-dev
>> <oi-dev at openindiana.org <mailto:oi-dev at openindiana.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>     On Thu, 27 May 2021 at 20:50, Gerard Arthus <garthus801 at gmail.com
>>     <mailto:garthus801 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>      > I would actually be for Open Solaris and would prefer to see
>>     Solaris associated with the branding. What do others think?
>> 
>>     Solaris is a trademark or registered trademark of Oracle and/or its
>>     affiliates in the United States and other countries.
>> 
>>     illumos and Solaris diverged a decade ago; we're a different operating
>>     system now.  Using "Solaris" anywhere near the software will only
>>     confuse people into thinking it's compatible with Oracle Solaris in
>>     some way, which it is not.
>> 
>> 
>>     Cheers.
>> 
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>>     Joshua M. Clulow
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> 
> Just brainstorming here:
> How about just Indiana or jONEs(hehe, from Sun ONE and Indiana Jones) or
> OpenSun or SunOp(as in dawn, but referring to Operating system) or
> SolsticeOS(yup, Sun actually had Solstice Backup and other stuff, but
> AFAIK not an OS with that name).
If we're voting here. I'd like to cast a vote for Solstice. OS just seems
redundant.
The beauty of it; is that you're calling it Sun, without doing it. ;-)
Ooo, how 'bout Solstice Microsystems. <evil grin>

--Chris
> 
> I've actually always thought that OpenIndiana was a good name, but way
> too long.
> 
> /tony

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