[advocacy-discuss] [osol-discuss] [trademark-policy-dev] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Shawn Walker]

On 31/10/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Jim Grisanzio <Jim.Grisanzio at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
> > Joerg Schilling wrote:
> >
> > > I have no problem if Sun would start to publish something called:
> > > "Sun OpenSolaris ...."
> >
> > Why would "Sun OpenSolaris" make sense? Actually, that expression has
> > been used (incorrectly) in the media, and it's only added to the
> > confusion. Also, isn't it a benefit for the distros to share in the use
> > of the brand?
>
> As other distros cannot use the brand name, it would be bad if Sun used it.

That is incorrect; the proposed guidelines would allow them to use the
name with the single restriction that they could not call themselves
"OpenSolaris."

Sun is not the one using the trademark here; Sun is allowing an
OpenSolaris.org project called "Project Indiana" to use the trademark
to represent their project.

It would be no different if I had started "Project Wonkers" and gotten
Sun's permission to use the trademark.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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