John Sonnenschein 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
You'll have to come up with a completely new name (not just NetSolaris
or FreeSolaris) unless you can convince Sun management to allow use of
a derivative of the Solaris trademark.
Once you have that name, doing a trademark search to make sure it's not
infringing someone else's trademark is (if I recall correctly) a 4-6
digit number of US dollars, depending on how many jurisdictions you want
to search in. If you find a conflict with another trademark, then it's,
stop/rinse/repeat, costing another iteration of the search fees, until
you get a good one.
So is it possible? I don't know why not. Is it going to be cheap or
easy? Probably not.
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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