On 01/11/2007, 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.
1) Some people may feel that way, some do not, please do not imply that all feel this way 2) At last check, Ian made it very clear the trademark and branding discussion was still open and invited others to take part. That hardly indicates a decision by fiat. > 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. Who would pay for such a thing? Sun? You are aware that trademarks are a very expensive process, and quite frankly I'm not willing to donate to such a thing > 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 This isn't Sun. Sorry, but that's just inciting yet another flamewar. Look at this as a Project on opensolaris.org that chose to name something a certain way. How would the community deal with any project on OpenSolaris.org doing this? -- 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 [email protected]
