On 31/10/2007, Stephen Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard L. Hamilton wrote: > >> MC wrote: > >> > >>> Not that I care for bureaucracy, and not that I > >>> > >> know what is happening here, but... > >> > >>> I think if you strong-arm past the OpenSolaris > >>> > >> community bureaucracy (and again, not saying you are, > >> because I don't know much about it), it'll be > >> archived forever and referenced in the future to show > >> how Sun only takes said OpenSolaris bureaucracy > >> seriously when it is convenient for them. > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> Context? > >> > > > > Where's the pointer to formal buy-in by the OGB for the use of Indiana as > > _the_ OpenSolaris reference distro? > > > There was none. > The OGB was not formally consulted. Several of us made our concerns > known as individual voices, but that apparently had no effect. > > Where's at least a broad _agreement_ between Sun and the OGB that > > a program will be developed to (a) define what constitutes a compatible > > distro, and (b) allow compatible distros to use the OpenSolaris trademark? > > > There is none. > > Possibly not necessary to have, but certainly polite and > > credibility-enhancing, > > IMO. > > > Indeed, it would have been polite, wouldn't it.
The important thing to remember here is that no official decision has been made. Instead of a bunch of people running around grumpy, let's take this opportunity to ensure that we participate in the branding and trademark discussion taking place on trademark-policy-dev. Before we have something truly official, the advocacy community (and possibly others) need to propose something to the OGB and then a vote needs to happen. Remember that Sun can use the trademark in whatever way they choose but they don't control the communities here. Instead of acting as if Sun has made any decisions for you, use the abilities given to you by the constitution you voted for. 1) Get involved in the discussion, be a part of the process 2) Get the relevant communities to form a proper proposal that reflects the results of that process 3) Get the core contributors votes for it 4) Propose it to the OGB 5) Have a community vote Really, I don't see the problem here. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types--in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor..." --Larry Wall _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
