On Nov 2, 2007, at 14:41, Garrett D'Amore wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: >> On 02/11/2007, Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> The community may (or may not) choose to *GIVE* the name to the >>> project >>> to use. >>> >> >> The community hasn't been given the right to give the name to >> anybody, >> or for that matter, take it from anybody. The community explicitly >> has >> no rights over the name whatsoever. >> >> You can't enforce policy that doesn't exist. A policy surrounding the >> trademark should have been defined at the inception of the community. >> >> > > And it is *precisely* because of *that* problem that I proposed > that in > the long run, we should consider one of two courses of action: > > 1) get Sun to give up the rights to the mark > > or > > 2) create our own mark, and change our identity (sort of what all > the Xen-derived distros had to do).
and here's to the Op3nSol4riz distro .. with the "Pimpin' Phred" release _______________________________________________ indiana-discuss mailing list indiana-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/indiana-discuss
