On Nov 2, 2007, at 01:42, Keith M Wesolowski wrote: > On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 01:17:03AM +0000, Simon Phipps wrote: > >> You'll find this has been discussed already on website- >> discuss at opensolaris.org where Derek made it clear he was acting >> according to normal procedures using information from the Indiana >> project. > > Actually, it seems to me that he was acting on Sun's behalf. From > http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/website-discuss/2007-November/ > 004113.html: > > Sun owns the trademark and Project Indiana is using that trademark > for their distro. If the folks at Project Indiana or the Advocacy > community working with them tell me there is a name change then I > will go change the name. > > Since neither Community Groups nor Projects have the authority to make > such a major change to the main page (at most, I would expect that > making an announcement using the ordinary mechanism would be > reasonable) and Derek specifically mentioned Sun's trademark > ownership, I'm not sure what else a reasonable person would conclude.
Then we will have to differ since I find your interpretation of Derek's words unreasonable - he speaks only of "Project Indiana" requesting an action. I'm unable to find any sign of an announcement in the places I would expect an "official Sun" announcement to appear. S.
