Rich Teer wrote: > On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, John Sonnenschein wrote: > >> trademark. That was never the problem. The problem is that Sun gave >> the impression from the inception of the project that the OpenSolaris >> trademark stood for one thing (ie: O/N et al ) , that it wouldn't be >> favourably granted to one distro at the expense of others, and that > > Very true. From http://www.opensolaris.org/os/about/ > > # The main difference between the OpenSolaris project and the Solaris > # Operating System is that the OpenSolaris project does not provide an > # end-user product or complete distribution. Instead it is an open source > # code base, build tools necessary for developing with the code, and an > # infrastructure for communicating and sharing related information. > > Note the phrase "[T]he OpenSolaris project does not provide an end-user > product or complete distribution". Seems pretty clear to me. > > Project Indiana's usurption of the OpenSolaris name is something I'm > opposed to, and is in direct contradiction to the preceding statement. > However, it is, unfortunately, Sun's legal right (as the trademark owner) > to do so.
I do not disagree with this analysis. I guess where I differ (and maybe I'm reading too much into Bill's statement) is that I see some acknowledgment by Sun that they did, in fact, screw up with this. Hence my original "faltering step" comment. I hope that, if I am correct, Sun wants to correct this blunder. Or am I being too hopeful? <shrug> Rainer -- Mind the gap.
