[ogb-discuss] OGB/2007/004 Trademark Usage and Distribution Nomenclature

[Simon Phipps]

On Nov 2, 2007, at 01:07, Keith M Wesolowski wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:48:28AM +0000, Simon Phipps wrote:
>
>> That looks like a news story by the employee communications people to
>> me, as opposed to an announcement. The OGB (and that story) say Sun
>> has announced it but all I can find are statements on behalf of the
>> Indiana project so far.
>
> Let's ask this then: who updated the main page on opensolaris.org, and
> on whose authority was he or she acting?  It couldn't have been the
> project team because project teams aren't authorized to do it (they
> have their own pages which they can edit, of course).  It certainly
> wasn't the OGB.  The only reasonable conclusion is that someone acting
> on Sun's behalf did so utilising the fact that Sun owns the servers
> that host it.
>
> In the spirit of your desire to name individuals rather than just
> saying "Sun" I did, using my site editor privileges, poke around the
> web site looking for any kind of audit log or record that would
> provide a concrete answer to this question.  I was somewhat surprised
> not to find one, so I don't actually know.  But I would be interested
> in hearing from the individual who made the update, and to know the
> authority under which that individual believed he or she was acting.

You'll find this has been discussed already on website- 
discuss at opensolaris.org where Derek made it clear he was acting  
according to normal procedures using information from the Indiana  
project.

S.