Indiana seems so far away that to me becomes a very exotic name; FOREIGNERS, PLEASE DON'T LEAVE US ALONE WITH THE DANES!
thats a political statement :-D On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 2:28 PM, Christopher Chan <[email protected]> wrote: > Søren Krarup Olesen wrote: >> >> ALL: >> >> Has there been any discussion about the name "OpenIndiana" recently. I >> can surely understand the reason for picking this name, but for a Dane >> (like me) it comes out a bit clumsy. >> >> I've tried to imagine a couple of funny scenarios, like OpenDenmark >> (Denmark is at least three times smaller than the state of Indiana) and >> it leaves me with wrong, well, almost political associations. >> >> As much as I want Denmark to be more open towards foreigners, this >> probably has no counterpart in making Indiana more "open" in that >> sense, so... :-) >> >> Perhaps "OpenIndiana" sounds much better in American but it still has >> this...provincial touch over it. >> >> Anybody? > > Indiana is the codename/name of the previous official Sun Microsystems > OpenSolaris distribution. > > Hence OpenIndiana since this is a project to carry on that legacy. > > _______________________________________________ > OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss > _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
