[indiana-discuss] Re: [indiana=discuss] Name of Distro?

[Stephen Lau]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> 
> On Jun 21, 2007, at 02:24, Shawn Walker wrote:
>> I just think that a project that is supposedly by the community
>> (Indiana) should have to follow the same rules as the rest of the
>> community.
> 
> I agree with that. But how about if those rules changed? There are a few 
> boundaries imposed by US and other trademark law, but it's plausible 
> that we could ask Sun to change the rules.

... so we'd change the rules to allow other distros to call themselves 
OpenSolaris.  But then we call Indiana: "OpenSolaris".  So any other 
distro that comes up afterwards would look stupid for copying an already 
existing name.

It seems like a workaround to make it seem fair, when in fact it's still 
unfair... no?

cheers,
steve

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