[indiana-discuss] [ogb-discuss] [osol-discuss] I'm sorry, but I just don't get it

[Jonathan Edwards]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 14:41, Garrett D'Amore wrote:

> Shawn Walker wrote:
>> On 02/11/2007, Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld at sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>> The community may (or may not) choose to *GIVE* the name to the  
>>> project
>>> to use.
>>>
>>
>> The community hasn't been given the right to give the name to  
>> anybody,
>> or for that matter, take it from anybody. The community explicitly  
>> has
>> no rights over the name whatsoever.
>>
>> You can't enforce policy that doesn't exist. A policy surrounding the
>> trademark should have been defined at the inception of the community.
>>
>>
>
> And it is *precisely* because of *that* problem that I proposed  
> that in
> the long run, we should consider one of two courses of action:
>
>     1) get Sun to give up the rights to the mark
>
> or
>
>     2) create our own mark, and change our identity (sort of what all
> the Xen-derived distros had to do).

and here's to the Op3nSol4riz distro .. with the "Pimpin' Phred" release