On 10/19/07, John Plocher <John.Plocher at sun.com> wrote: > > The OpenSolaris trademark is owned (for better or worse) by Sun. > The brand owners and decision makers at Sun (aka PR/Marketing) > are also among the core contributers in the advocacy community. >
This should be incidental. Mixing the 2 is not warranted. > > They are currently working on branding guidelines for use of the > OpenSolaris trademark - things like "OpenSolaris Compatible", > "Built with OpenSolaris", "The OpenSolaris Appliance Distro", > and so on. > > If you wish to influence this discussion, then y'all need to > become a contributer in that community as they address these > marketing activities. > I have been subscribed to advocacy-discuss. I do not recall seeing any such discussion happening on advocacy-discuss, nor do I see it in the archives ! Am I missing something? > > At some point we need to ask if it really matters. If the > OpenSolaris Distro Community (TBD...) were to come up with > a set of reference distro "recipes" for appliances, laptops, > web servers, enterprise servers and the like, and someone > took one of those recipes and made a product out of it, why > wouldn't we expect it to be called "OpenSolaris"? Wouldn't > this be a /good/ thing? > As long as any OpenSolaris based distros are allowed to use it (whether they use a distro constructor or do it from first principles), this should be ok. regards Shiv
