I understand that, and I am all opensourcy myself, but in this case,
initial conversations with Sun's TM lawyers need to be made by a Sun
employee. I have the best interests of this community at heart.
Sara
Chris Mahan wrote:
Sara,
Not to be all opensourcy and all, but it seems to me that a discussion
that's of import to this community is happening behind closed doors. I
for one am not excited about this at all.
On 6/26/07, *Sara Dornsife* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
I am starting discussions with Sun's lawyers on behalf of this
community
to see what we can do about the use of the TM and name. The end result
as I see it is to have more freedom with it's use. Whether for this
distro or to create my own tshirt or print up a poster. I will
follow up
with options.
Sara
Stephen Lau wrote:
> This thread is growing out of control, so can I please make a
suggestion.
>
> Everybody stop, calm down, and let's all enjoy the weekend. Logical
> arguments are fine, but the messages now are getting into
name-calling
> and accusations. There's no call for that here. We're too
nascent a
> community to already start fragmenting over something that isn't
even
> *technology*. We're arguing about a name here. Keep that in mind.
>
> So the main point of contention is about the use of the name
> "OpenSolaris". We can argue all we want about what Sun wants, and
> about what the community wants. (And if you've read my replies, you
> know how I feel already - I won't reiterate it here).
>
> Why don't we just make it a poll? We've got the whizzy polling
> infrastructure.... instead of bickering back and forth like
> schoolkids, let's put it up to a vote.
>
> cheers,
> steve
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