> 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
I don't think you guys have the first foggy clue what it takes to create a corporation, a shareholders agreement, a board of directors, register trademarks and then pay for all the infrastructure out of your own pocket while building a future. As someone that has done all of that, over and over, I think you are grossly mistaken on a number of points as well as a budget. Really .. I don't know where either of you are going or if anyone will follow but neither of you seem to have a clue. Dennis Clarke http://www.blastwave.org/ _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
