On 11/1/07, John Sonnenschein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Since Murdock and the rest of Sun's marketing department decided to > stab the community in the back by defining by executive fiat what > exactly "OpenSolaris" meant, perhaps it's time to rename what the old > bits used to be. > > Anyone on OGB or other committees, what's the likelihood we can > reclaim ON et al. with a new name to allow people like Nexenta to > continue to be part of the community. > > Sun can call their distro OpenSolaris if they like, but perhaps the > solution to keep them happy and not anger and split the community is > to ignore "OpenSolaris" as being the Sun Microsystems product it is, > and call $foo the community and the code
It will be tricky. OpenSolaris.org isn't a legal entity that can register trademarks, we would need some organization to register them for us. (Probably a new $foo foundation). Since we'd have to spend money to incorporate, and file trademarks, we would have to shell out a few thousand dollars, which would probably have to come directly from personal donations. (I figure 40 x $100 would be enough to get it going.) That said I am tentatively in favor of starting a $foo foundation, and registering $foo.org, and filing for $foo trademarks. I propose that we send a proposal to the OGB to establish an independent foundation. -Brian P.S. - If Sun is willing to transfer the trademarks to a non-profit foundation, we can drop the $foo name. > comments? > _______________________________________________ > opensolaris-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > -- - Brian Gupta http://opensolaris.org/os/project/nycosug/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
