Yep, Sara's on point. To me, this all comes down to the question: Is OpenSolaris just the code base, or is it an operating system you can download and run?
I'm pretty clearly of the latter viewpoint. To me, that's part and parcel of removing barriers to adoption--much of the broader community we need to reach already thinks of it as such. And regular releases in binary form serve as a great delivery vehicle for our technology, roadmap around which to align new feature development, etc. Even in open source, it's the binary platform that matters most.. That's not to say there can't be multiple distributions--Nexenta etc. can keep doing things just the way they've been doing them. If anything, we're hoping to find ways to enable others to build distributions that are more closely affiliated with OpenSolaris, hence the "Built on OpenSolaris" part of the naming proposal. OpenSolaris as product family, as others have put it. But as that product family grows, we need to ensure the brand OpenSolaris continues to mean something, particularly given the Linux experience and Solaris' long history of binary compatibility. None of these issues are intractable. I'm confident we'll collectively come up with something that works. -ian Sara Dornsife wrote: > >> I plan to participat, I just want to make sure that whatever decision >> that we all reach is "doable". IE: I don't want to have us come to an >> agreement, and then have it rejected for some unforeseen internal Sun >> reason. >> > > As I said before, I took this conversation internal and discussed things > with branding and TM legal. I feel I have a fairly good idea of what > would and what wouldn't be approved. Keeping in mind of course that > Sun's interest in protecting this TM is in the best interests, not > opposing, to the community. > >> You say there are only Sun employees. However, a Corporation is a >> legal entity of it's own regard. Although any employee of a company >> can be considered a representative of the company, many of you have >> gone to great pains to say there is no Sun only as humans. Push comes >> to shove, a decision of this potential magnitude has to be signed off >> by legal and or someone who has has the authority. (Possibly B. Lee?) >> > > I officially assign myself as Sun delegate (or community liaison or > whatever) for this decision-making process. I will run it around and get > buy-off from the TM owners, Sun. Or bring back feedback for us to work > with. > >> I want to make sure that the people sitting in the room have the >> authority to shape/represent Sun's Trademark policies. >> >> Cheers, >> -Brian >> >> P.S. - That all said, I am going to throw out some talking points on >> the advocacy list. >> >>> ____ >>> [*] although that lack of decisions may actually be part of a >>> bigger problem, but I most certainly digress... >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ogb-discuss mailing list > ogb-discuss at opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/ogb-discuss -- Ian Murdock http://ianmurdock.com/ "Don't look back--something might be gaining on you." --Satchel Paige
