As I said earlier, I have no issue with openindiana, and you gave some nice elegance to the whole thing...
But questioning is never a bad attitude, specially dealing with taste and meaning. I find no problem in questioning something that I like, if it could bring some new perspectives out. I have been teaching computer graphics in the university, designers and art-students are specially used to badly attack whatever idea before accepting it. I think questioning a name is a basic thing to face. I was somehow waiting to see who asks first about the issue. I accept openindiana, but I would like to help questioning it, not to convince or be convinced by someone, but for the purpose of analyzing if we are going in the right direction. Critique is a part in all creative work, there is nothing evil on it, it goes together. Cheers! On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Alasdair Lumsden <alasdai...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Gabriel de la Cruz > <gabriel.delac...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So, your question is a good one... is that name enough to "compete" with >> them? > > I would have no issue recommending "OpenIndiana" in a board room to a > bunch of pointy-haired-bosses* - it sounds way more corporate than > Ubuntu, FreeBSD or CentOS, which I personally think sound "cheap". > When someone first suggested CentOS to me as an alternative to RHEL, I > was like "What?!". But over the years CentOS has gained an excellent > reputation and I have no doubt that installations of it exceed those > of RHEL significantly. > > Perhaps I'm biased as I essentially chose the name, but I don't see an > issue with it. The biggest grumbles seemed to come from oldschool > bearded UNIX types who haven't gotten over /usr/gnu/bin being put at > the front of their PATH and who view Ian Murdock as the harbinger of > doom and all things evil. > > The fact is we live in a world where every decent dictionary word is > in use by somebody, somewhere. *.com, *.net and *.org are taken. Heck, > in the UK/Europe we have some large banks called Smile and Egg. :-) > Sometimes you have to make tough choices. Although OpenIndiana is not > as sexy a name as "Solaris", the fact is, it was available and seemed > a pretty good choice. > > If your bosses genuinely make business decisions based on trivialities > such as what something is called, then you probably have bigger > organisational issues than what OS your servers run :-P > > > * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pointy-haired_Boss > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
