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

[Shawn Walker]

On 01/11/2007, Joerg Schilling <Joerg.Schilling at fokus.fraunhofer.de> wrote:
> Sara Dornsife <Sara.Dornsife at Sun.COM> wrote:
>
> > > As other distros cannot use the brand name, it would be bad if Sun used it.
> > >
> >
> > We have been discussing TM guidelines and usage scenarios for the past
> > two weeks. We are working to create NEW guidelines. Yes, the current
> > (past) guidelines have been restrictive. I'd like to see you work with
> > the rest of us on how to create new guidelines that work better for all
> > distributions.
>
> We had this discussion long ago and we decided that it was a bad idea to allow
> a distribution to use the name OpenSolaris. I do not see anything that would
> change the constraints here.

Who's this mysterious we?

I certainly would never agree to such a thing.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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