On Sat, 16 Feb 2008, Simon Phipps wrote:

> In an effort to avoid the inevitable current issues, I casually explored this 
> when the OpenSolaris community was initially proposed and found that first, 
> someone would have to license it from The Open Group, and secondly because it 
> is a high-value trademark it would need all the same sort of protection as 
> Solaris.
>
> As ever IANAL and this is not advice.

I would like clarification on this, if possible.

IMO, even if it did cost something, maybe Sun could work out a deal with 
the Open Group to do that for the OpenSolaris community. That could be 
money well spent, and in good spirit, IMO.;-)

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Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group

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