Simon Phipps writes: > > On Nov 1, 2007, at 20:31, Stephen Lau wrote: > > > Shawn Walker wrote: > >> 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. > > I don't think accusing a legal fiction gets us anywhere. It lets the > actual offenders off the hook without allowing the anger to > dissipate. Ultimately all decisions are the responsibility of an > actual person. I'll repeat here what I said on osol-discuss:
Amusingly, when the original poster *did* in fact name names in response to your request, he was rather quickly reprimanded by another contributor for using someone's name in that fashion. I doubt anyone can win here. Changing it from "Sun" to "Sun executives" might help a bit, but I doubt we can grind those words to a fine enough point that nobody is upset with the accusation. -- James Carlson, Solaris Networking <james.d.carlson at sun.com> Sun Microsystems / 35 Network Drive 71.232W Vox +1 781 442 2084 MS UBUR02-212 / Burlington MA 01803-2757 42.496N Fax +1 781 442 1677
