> >> That's a significant community-wide power. It's a big change, without
> >> regard to the trademark legal issues.
> >
> > Only if we sit around and leave it as-is. You're speaking as if all
> > decisions are made and final. That's not so. There's a stake in the
> > ground, for sure, but we all have shovels.
>
> Assertions about nothing being final are meaningless if we have no plan
> or proposal to move forwards on.
>
> I'd therefore suggest that a deadline is set of 2 weeks for preparing a
> proposal and associated plan to be put to the OpenSolaris community at
> large. The Advocacy Community and the Trademark and Branding Project
> are to be responsible for producing the proposal, and that when it is
> complete the OGB will make a decision on whether or not requires
> ratification by the whole community by a formal vote.
I can't bring myself to utter "+1" -- only beause I find it to be a lazy
way of expression -- but I strongly agree with this proposal. The only
thing I would add is that if the OGB decides not to put it to a formal
community-wide vote that the proposal be ratified or rejected by the OGB
itself.
Personally, I find it unfortunate that the Indiana project has elected to
take a divisive path in terms of their nomenclature (and yes, nomenclature
is very, very important), but I would like to see us move on, one way or
another...
- Bryan
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