On 02/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Sara Dornsife <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > > > As other distros cannot use the brand name, it would be bad if Sun 
> > > > > used it.
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > > We have been discussing TM guidelines and usage scenarios for the past
> > > > two weeks. We are working to create NEW guidelines. Yes, the current
> > > > (past) guidelines have been restrictive. I'd like to see you work with
> > > > the rest of us on how to create new guidelines that work better for all
> > > > distributions.
> > >
> > > We had this discussion long ago and we decided that it was a bad idea to 
> > > allow
> > > a distribution to use the name OpenSolaris. I do not see anything that 
> > > would
> > > change the constraints here.
> >
> > Who's this mysterious we?
>
> THe OpenSolaris community. Maybe you have not been in that time.

No, I wasn't part of the pilot project and since that was under NDA, I
don't think there's much point in referencing any decisions from that
time.

-- 
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
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