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

[James Carlson]

Simon Phipps writes:
> 
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 20:31, Stephen Lau wrote:
> 
> > Shawn Walker wrote:
> >> Please stop saying Sun; it's inflammatory and inaccurate. This was a
> >> decision made by a project with the allowance of other individuals at
> >> Sun. It should be obvious by now that not everyone agrees regardless
> >> of whether they work at Sun. Stating Sun in the way you do dismisses
> >> the individual views and makes a faceless corporation out of a
> >> company.
> >>
> > It depends on the viewpoint.  Given that Sun is the only one who can
> > declare the use of the trademark, it doesn't seem unreasonable to  
> > me to
> > say that Sun is the one who has made the decision.
> 
> I don't think accusing a legal fiction gets us anywhere. It lets the  
> actual offenders off the hook without allowing the anger to  
> dissipate. Ultimately all decisions are the responsibility of an  
> actual person. I'll repeat here what I said on osol-discuss:

Amusingly, when the original poster *did* in fact name names in
response to your request, he was rather quickly reprimanded by another
contributor for using someone's name in that fashion.

I doubt anyone can win here.

Changing it from "Sun" to "Sun executives" might help a bit, but I
doubt we can grind those words to a fine enough point that nobody is
upset with the accusation.

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