On 01/11/2007, Stephen Lau <stevel at opensolaris.org> wrote: > Shawn Walker wrote: > > On 01/11/2007, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote: > > > >> However, because Sun has forced the issue by unilaterally declaring > >> that Indiana is OpenSolaris, a vote is needed now. (Whether that is > >> for the Indiana name, or for Trademark and branding as a whole). > >> > > > > Please stop saying Sun; it's inflammatory and inaccurate. This was a > > decision made by a project with the allowance of other individuals at > > Sun. It should be obvious by now that not everyone agrees regardless > > of whether they work at Sun. Stating Sun in the way you do dismisses > > the individual views and makes a faceless corporation out of a > > company. > > > > > It depends on the viewpoint. Given that Sun is the only one who can > declare the use of the trademark, it doesn't seem unreasonable to me to > say that Sun is the one who has made the decision.
Shall we then accuse Sun of not enforce trademark usage more strictly since technically existing distributions don't even have permission to use the trademark in the way some of them use it now? I didn't hear anyone accusing Sun of being bad until the trademark was used in a way that some do not approve of. -- 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
