On 11/2/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> 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.
<Quote from Ian's announcement mail> But a core value of Solaris has always been compatibility, so we (Sun), as the steward of the OpenSolaris trademark, have hesitated to allow other distros to use the OpenSolaris brand to identify themselves. With a binary that defines what it means to be "OpenSolaris" from an application compatibility point of view, we now have the opportunity to do just this. </Quote> And it is visible that the opportunity/(right!) this was exercised. > It should be obvious by now that not everyone agrees regardless > of whether they work at Sun. It would be least of surprises if many people take exception to the referral of this as done by community-members. -Shiv
