John Sonnenschein wrote: > Since Murdock and the rest of Sun's marketing department decided to > stab the community in the back by defining by executive fiat what > exactly "OpenSolaris" meant, perhaps it's time to rename what the old > bits used to be. > > Anyone on OGB or other committees, what's the likelihood we can > reclaim ON et al. with a new name to allow people like Nexenta to > continue to be part of the community. > > Sun can call their distro OpenSolaris if they like, but perhaps the > solution to keep them happy and not anger and split the community is > to ignore "OpenSolaris" as being the Sun Microsystems product it is, > and call $foo the community and the code
You'll have to come up with a completely new name (not just NetSolaris or FreeSolaris) unless you can convince Sun management to allow use of a derivative of the Solaris trademark. Once you have that name, doing a trademark search to make sure it's not infringing someone else's trademark is (if I recall correctly) a 4-6 digit number of US dollars, depending on how many jurisdictions you want to search in. If you find a conflict with another trademark, then it's, stop/rinse/repeat, costing another iteration of the search fees, until you get a good one. So is it possible? I don't know why not. Is it going to be cheap or easy? Probably not. -- -Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org