On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Justin Erenkrantz <justin at erenkrantz.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 9:42 AM, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> > wrote: > > You'd be hard pressed to find someone who isn't more community-focused > > and engaged than Glynn, but it seems like this 'mv Indiana OpenSolaris' > > decision was made by Sun executives -- and they definitely *aren't* > > engaged in the larger OpenSolaris community. > > I know all about Sun executives making decisions that have no basis in > reality. =) > > But, like the JCP, the OGB doesn't necessarily have to collectively > back the position taken by Sun. Assert the power of the OGB - if the > position of the OGB is to disagree with the naming policy, then > refusing to publicize Indiana as OpenSolaris on the opensolaris.org > site might be a step to consider. You may not be able to control what > Sun does on sun.com, but the OGB should have the power to control what > goes on opensolaris.org. If you can't do that, then it'll be quite > clear to *everyone* (even Shawn Walker) that this problem is not about > trademarks, but about enforcing direct control against the wishes of > the OpenSolaris community as expressed by the OGB. -- justin
That's where I'll disagree. I think that's a confrontational, and unnecessary action that promotes fragmentation. If the OGB chose to do that, I would say they would be wrong. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben
