Shawn Walker wrote: > 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. > > +1, I agree totally. It's a tricky situation to be sure, because Sun has not done anything legally wrong. They own the trademark, they are free to do with it as they wish.
The issue that myself (and others) have with Sun's action is that it was done in poor faith with the community. If Sun had gone after one of the other distributions (Belenix, Nexenta, etc.) for trademark infringement - it would have been the same situation.... while it's well within their rights as trademark owner, it shows poor faith in the community. Sun purports to want to work with the OpenSolaris Community in this issue, but in fact it hasn't. It initiated a discussion sure, but a discussion on a mailing list is a far cry from an authoritative decision by the community at large. *that* is my only beef with this action, nothing else. cheers, steve -- stephen lau | stevel at opensolaris.org | www.whacked.net
