On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Shawn Walker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 11:00 AM, Joerg Schilling > > > > > This is why the OpenSolaris cummunity proposed Sun to use a new > > > trademark for > > > an OpenSolaris based distro. > > > > *watches point fly by responder* > > > > Let's try this again. > > > > Canonical controls the Ubuntu trademark *and the community* that > > surrounds their distribution. > > > > RedHat controls the Fedora trademark *and the community* that > > surrounds their distribution. > > If you did really understand the problem, why do you still tell people that > you > disagree? > > Ubuntu et al are all creating distros from a project called "Linux", > we and Sun are all creating distros from a project called "OpenSolaris". > > If Sun follows the example of Ubuntu and other Linux distros, we had no > problem. > Let Sun just create their trademark from their OpenSolaris distro, but don't > let them call it "OpenSolaris" as no Linux distro is called "Linux".
Sun can't follow their example for two reasons: * Sun produces Solaris and that becomes OpenSolaris * Sun owns the trademark to Solaris and OpenSolaris, Ubuntu does not own the trademark to Linux That makes the situation *very* different. -- Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst http://binarycrusader.blogspot.com/ "To err is human -- and to blame it on a computer is even more so." - Robert Orben _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
