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

[Joerg Schilling]

"Shawn Walker" <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:

> 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?

THe OpenSolaris community. Maybe you have not been in that time.

Jörg

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