Rich Teer <rich.teer at rite-group.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Shawn Walker wrote:
>
> > ...which means it really isn't an usurpation. As someone who has been
> > involved in this community since public launch day, I *never* had the
> > impression or belief that the community somehow had exclusive rights
> > or control over the trademark.
>
> As someone who has been involved with this prior to day one[1], I agree
> that Sun never gave control of the OpenSolaris trademark to the community
> (nor would I expect them to). But to me the issue of a distro called
> "OpenSolaris" and other uses of the OpenSolaris trademark are two different
> things.
I am on the OpenSolaris project from Day one (September 14th 2004 IIRC).
This seems to be before what you called "day one[1]" ,-)
In the time between January 2005 and June 2005, there was a real collaboration
between the community and the Sun people and Sun people frequently asked how to
do things. At that time we had the conclusion that the term "OpenSolaris"
cannot be used as a name for a distribution. I hope that this agreement is
still in effect and Sun will not call "Indiana" "OpenSolaris".
J?rg
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