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

[Alan Burlison]

Al Hopper wrote:


> And I've been in favor of this project (after I recovered from the 
> initial shock of Ian Murdock being hired by Sun) - because it means 
> that people are putting money and talented developer manhours into 
> making OpenSolaris even better.  We (as in the community) are getting 
> a new installer, a new packaging/distribution mechanism and an 
> improved patching mechanism - and thats just for starters.  Who is 
> *not* in favor of that.  How "unfair" is that!?  Are you kidding - 
> this is *great* for OpenSolaris (the Project) and I don't care who 
> thinks its unfair that Sun owns the OpenSolaris trademark and wants to 
> associate some flavor of that name to describe a resulting 
> distribution which they have largely sponsored.

I don't want to rain on your parade, but all those things you mentioned 
would have happened even if Indiana hadn't come along.  Granted, they've 
probably happened a little faster, but they are all areas that were 
already being worked on.

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Alan Burlison
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