[advocacy-discuss] The OpenSolaris "Attitude"

[Martin Bochnig]

Ian Collins wrote:
> Jim Grisanzio wrote:
>   
>> Yep. The Solaris brand is strong. That's the reason we used it to name 
>> OpenSolaris. :)
>>
>>   
>>     
> But how about the converse? 
>
> Part of the strength of the Linux brand is it's ubiquity.  Just about
> every major distribution call its self "Bla [enterprise] Linux".  We
> don't see that with OpenSolaris.  Every OpenSolaris distribution has its
> own name, even Sun's distributions use the Solaris rather than
> OpenSolaris brand.
>
> There has to be a better way of associating the brand with the
> distributions.
>
> Ian
>
>   

Is anybody except JAVA actually permitted to use that brand?
If so, most distros would certainly have done that ...

http://opensolaris.org/os/trademark/
"Without a trademark license, you may not use Solaris or OpenSolaris in 
the name of your distribution, or any product, service or company name."


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Martin Bochnig
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