[advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Stephen Lau]

Glynn Foster wrote:
> 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.
>   

Right - I thought the iteration (internal & external people 
participating) on trademark-policy-dev have been very useful; what I 
don't like is Sun choosing to ignore those, and releasing something 
using the trademark without having waited for the trademark policy 
discussion to finish first.

I'm not asking Sun to take a backseat - I think if anything they *need* 
to drive this as the sole trademark holder/owner.  I'm just asking them 
not to ignore community input, and not to falsely represent a decision 
as the community's decision, when in fact it hasn't been.

cheers,
steve

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