On Fri, Feb 15, 2008 at 5:11 AM, Joerg Schilling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Plocher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Joerg Schilling wrote: > > > OpenSolaris is not a Project but the codebase for many projects. > > > This is why we cannot have a distro called "OpenSolaris". > > > > > > Why is this a bad thing? IMO, it is not very confusing to be told > > that the OpenSolaris distro is a product that is made up out of the > > OpenSolaris codebase developed by the OpenSolaris Community over on > > a web site called OpenSolaris.org. > > Well, it is so obvious that I thought I don't need to explain. > > If Sun really starts to call som distro "OpenSolaris" it undermines > future Community decsions like e.g. the definition of what a compatible > distro means.
Actually, it doesn't. Because even if Indiana is never released, Sun can still define whatever rules they want for compatibility as the trademark holder. They can say "to call your distribution OpenSolaris-compatible you must: a, b, c." > I really hope Sun is not going to burn the name "OpenSolaris".... I'm pretty sure they're not going to; they're going to ensure that it remains valuable. > note that it would be hard to explain that a distro called "OpenSolaris" > is not "OpenSolaris-compatible". I don't think that can happen. I think that if the community wants to develop their own compatibility standard, they're going to have to come up with their own name. I also think that argument doesn't hold anyway for *all* targets, since as others have pointed before, compatibility between an embedded environment and a desktop environment is difficult at best. Cheers, -- 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 _______________________________________________ trademark-policy-dev mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/trademark-policy-dev
