> > Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > > > SolarOS > > > > > > Rolls right off the tongue ;) > > > > And anything that looks close enough to the name > of > > an existing > > trademark that it could be a typo for it, is > likely > > to get you > > unpleasant mail from trademark lawyers. > Trademark > law protects > > against confusingly similar naming. > > > > -- > > -Alan Coopersmith- > > - alan.coopersm...@oracle.com > > Oracle Solaris Platform Engineering: X Window > > ow System > > About eight or nine years ago, the Fedora Linux > project started at the University of Hawaii, led by > one of our local boys then a sophomore student Warren > Togami and his lab advisor Dr. Brian Ching, as a > YUM-based repository to supplement Red Hat. > > When Red Hat decided to abandon its community > distribution because of financial problems, Fedora > Linux became the non-official official community > distribution of Red Hat, and many of Red Hat's > developers were assigned to work on the Fedora Linux > project. . . . > > I am not making any suggestion, except to point out > that the word "fedora" is actually more descriptive > of the Red Hat logo, but I don't think any one can > raise the issue of likelihood of confusion as far as > trademark goes.
Ed.: The reason I mentioned this is that, "metaphorically" speaking, the term IllumOS has a much closer link with SunOS than on the surface (i.e., from looking at just the words)--probably not dissimilar to the Fedora/Red Hat connection. -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
