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

[Stephen Lau]

Simon Phipps wrote:
> [reducing scope to OGB-discuss]
>
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 15:37, Alan Burlison wrote:
>
>   
>> Simon Phipps wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Sounds a device calculated to lead to an early "no" vote to me -  
>>> reminds
>>> me of an earlier controversy.
>>>       
>> And this sounds like exactly the same argument that you tried to  
>> use in
>> that case to avoid bringing the issue to some sort of resolution,  
>> and as
>> a result it rumbled on and on.
>>     
>
> Your view. I see it differently. The then-OGB voted prematurely, in  
> my absence, on the assumption I would in some way "block" something.  
> As others have stated, premature optimisation is the enemy of  
> excellence.
>
> If you want a vote, have it in January after the heat has dissipated  
> and we have experience to feed wisdom.
>
>   
I'd be happy to do that if Indiana stopped using the name OpenSolaris as 
their distribution.
Since it doesn't appear they have any intent on doing that, then Alan's 
view seems perfectly reasonable to me.

-steve

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