[advocacy-discuss] Project Indiana and the OpenSolaris name

[Eric Boutilier]

On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Eric Boutilier wrote:
> [ Moving to advocacy-discuss ]
>
> On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Alan Burlison wrote:
>> Eric Boutilier wrote:
>>
>>> As Alan Coopersmith just alluded to, it's not up to the OGB to
>>> mandate a vote. (Nor is it up to Sun of course); and among those
>>> who do have the power -- Community Groups and their Contributors
>>> -- there isn't a collective push to put it to a vote.
>>
>> That's a ludicrous position.  If the OGB doesn't mandate what will and
>> will not be voted on, who will?
>>
>
> You're right, a mandate to hold a vote has to come from the top
> "appellate court" (the OGB in our case). My point, more
> correctly stated, is that the OGB chose not to mandate a vote
> due to lack of justification, which was due to the relative
> weakness of the push coming from Community Groups and
> Contributors to do so.
>

I just realized the above has lost some context, so just to be
clear...  When I say "push" above, I'm referring only to the
naming of the today's release. I aware there's a plan in the
works to have a vote on trademark policy aimed at future naming
decisions.

Eric