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

[Alan Burlison]

James Carlson wrote:

> I think the real issue here is that many are seeing Indiana as _Sun's_
> vision, and not the or even "a" community vision.  In that light, it
> becomes Sun's distribution and nobody else's.  That's why the naming
> is such an important thing.
> 
> Frankly, I don't really know which viewpoint is correct.  But I do
> think we're going to have to acknowledge and address those differing
> views if we're going to make any progress.

There should have been a vote.  That is why we have people with voting 
rights - so we have a formal mechanism for gauging the views of the 
community on important changes which affect the entire community.  This 
is clearly such an issue.

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Alan Burlison
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