Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:06 -0500, Sara Dornsife wrote:
>
>>> As members
>>> of our community's elected body have made exhaustively clear, there is
>>> a consensus that a single OpenSolaris-derived distribution -- even one
>>> emanating from Sun -- should not have exclusive use of the name
>>> "OpenSolaris".
>> There has absolutely not been consensus reached.
>
> In the broader community, no, but in the OGB, yes:
>
> See
> http://mail.opensolaris.org/pipermail/trademark-policy-dev/2007-November/000322.html
>
> Glynn Foster has recused himself from the discussion.
>
> All other OGB members have been critical of the choice of name.
I would clarify that the OGB doesn't have a consensus, nor even had a discussion
really yet, on whether there should ever be a distribution with exclusive use
of the name, just that the name shouldn't be taken exclusively by a distribution
the community hasn't agreed to endorse that way, nor even seen until after it
was announced it was using the name.
I suspect we'll get to the same end result someday, but as a deliberate
decision made by the community.
--
-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
