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

[Martin Bochnig]

Shawn Walker wrote:
> On 31/10/2007, Martin Bochnig <mb1x at gmx.com> wrote:
>   
>> Jim Grisanzio 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?
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>>       
>> It is the same as with all (super-)classes of objects, versus their
>> derived sub-classes, or even _instances_ of objects of the corresponding
>> classes.
>> Shouldn't you normally strive to strictly avoid referencing an instance
>> versus the actual class in the same (identical) manner?
>>
>> Renaming "Indiana" to "OpenSolaris": Wouldn't that be like renaming the
>> brand "Crysler" to "Automibile"?
>> IMO a "Crysler" is not equal to "Automobile". It would be a subclass of
>> it (with more nested subclasses and then n-millions of instances/leaf
>> nodes).
>> Renaming "Indiana" to "Sun OpenSolaris" would make much more sense to
>> me, because that's just what it is (independently from how it may or may
>> not be called at the end of the day).
>>     
>
> Sorry, but that would not be true. Indiana is the result of work from
> more than just Sun folks. It includes ksh93 for example, and it
> includes efforts by other non-Sun affiliated folks as well. Calling it
> Sun OpenSolaris would be inaccurate.
>   

Making boolean algebra derived assumptions based on that argument leads 
me to the following system of statements:

As BeleniX is called "BeleniX", it doesn't contain anything that has 
been developed by people outside of the BeleniX community.
As SchilliX is called "SchilliX", it doesn't contain anything that has 
been developed by people outside of the SchilliX community.
As Nextenda is called "Nextenda", it doesn't contain anything that has 
been developed by people outside of the Nextenda community.
As MartUX is called "MartUX", it doesn't contain anything that has been 
developed by people outside of the MartUX community.

Does that make sense?

-- 
Best regards,
Martin Bochnig
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