I'd just put this on the front page. I'm not going to do anything serious with this OS before figuring this out at some point.
I'm trying to help here. I think they can do better marketing when being maximum transparent from the start. As someone whom just chimed in says: they think that refering to Solaris is bad marketing. I believe the opposite.
Also to get people to take you serious could be done by other means than hiding your origins. Like testemonials and contribution stats.