On Feb 13, 2008 5:24 PM, Ignacio Marambio Cat?n <darkjoker at gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I found it a very disheartening response from Sun and a total > > > failure to listen & work with the community. > > > > Ditto, though personally I find the lack of response to that response > > more disheartening. The community does not exist as a community. > > > That's exactly what i think, i also wonder what took them so long if > they were going to give an answer like this > sun basically said that they owned the trademark and could do whatever > they wanted with it. It's legally accurate I think but it was a huge > blow to the open part of opensolaris and to the community.
I think people aren't being fair here. Sun has made it very clear from day one that there were many restrictions surrounding the use the trademark. People had no problem with that. The trademark is one of the most valuable things Sun owns, and quite frankly, their *right* and ability to use it is small recompense for the millions they've spent supporting this community. Attempting to deny Sun their rightful use of that trademark is morally wrong to me. It reeks of, "the world owes me something." To me, it it is morally reprehensible to attempt to simultaneously complain about Sun's commercial usage of their own property and at the same time hold out a hand begging for a handout; which is essentially what some are doing. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
