Dennis Clarke wrote: > > > 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 > orporation, 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 > ollow but neither of you seem to have a clue. > > Dennis Clarke > http://www.blastwave.org/
Dennis, this sounds a bit like old wise dad is teaching his sons a lesson. Do you think this is the appropriate approach of how to deal with long-term core community members like Brian Gupta or John Sonnenschein? I do not think so. But what you are saying about your experience with trademarks reminds me of something else: That you consider and treat Blastwave as *your* registered business (Aren't you proud of being listed as a partner-BUSINESS of Sun?), rather than as a fully open, democracy-driven *community* movement. This appears to be the true reason, why www.blastwave.org and www.opensolaris.org are not in any closer relationship. Sorry for this comment, but I am more interested in seeing the opensolaris community grow, than in registering my own MartUX [T.M.]'s. After re-considering all this: I cannot return to csw, as it is modelled and set-up until now. (This shall not end in a personal fight, it is simply meant to be a status update of my attitude, I will leave it alone at this point, thank you.) -- Best regards, Martin Bochnig http://www.martux.org/marTux___OSDevCon2007.pdf http://opensolaris.org/os/project/fox/ This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
