[arc-discuss] [install-discuss] [pkg-discuss] Seeking early guidance for integrating a new package system into O/N. (conary)

[Martin Bochnig]

> So you do agree there should be competing systems and then the ones that 
> people prefer would coalesce to being the dominant.
> 
> Maybe I'm missing the point but I thought opensolaris was there to 
> provide an operating system that the world could contribute to and get a 
> sense of ownership as they made it the best in the world. Sun would then 
> take the parts they thought made sense and worked really well and made 
> that part of Sun Solaris. Am I missing the point?
> 
> Bruce Rothermal


I think this had been the pre-Indiana-era "Sun product model".

This controversy has been stretched up and down during the recent months, especially during Indiana's launch time instantly after Oct 31st'07.
Maybe I don't understand enough of that legal stuff.

Everything else is still possible, also now: As long as you don't call it "foo OpenSolaris"[T.M.] But this has, in fact, never been possible legally.

2005: http://web.archive.org/web/20051215043836/http://www.opensolaris.org/os/trademark/

NOW:
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/trademark/

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Martin