[advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Glynn Foster]

Stephen Lau wrote:
> Why bother?  Sun has shown in the naming announcement that any amount of 
> iteration can be summarily ignored by Sun, and instead an (arbitrary) 
> decision can be made by Sun executives without any need to consider 
> community input.
> 
> That's not the sort of iteration I'm interested in.

I disagree to some extents. I think we have yet to see a trademark policy
proposal based on the discussions internal to Sun (this had to happen, since it
is the trademark holder). I know that discussions externally on the
trademark-policy-dev mailing list *have* proved useful in identifying the
typical use cases and scenarios around some of these issues. I see that as a
useful iteration. Asking Sun to take a backseat on this isn't going to happen,
and we all know this - whether we like it or not, is another question.


Glynn