[ogb-discuss] please dissolve the Desktop Community

[Brandorr]

On 11/2/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> On 02/11/2007, Brandorr <brandorr at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > On 11/2/07, Shawn Walker <swalker at opensolaris.org> wrote:
> > > On 02/11/2007, Roy T. Fielding <fielding at gbiv.com> wrote:
> > > > On Nov 2, 2007, at 1:58 PM, Glynn Foster wrote:
> > > > > Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> > > > >> 1) Inform all three of Indiana's sponsoring communities about the
> > > > >> release
> > > > >>    plans requirement of the constitution.
> > > > >
> > > > > Awesome, yet another way of slowing down getting software to our
> > > > > users. Anything
> > > > > else we can do to get in the way?
> > > >
> > > > If you had initiated the project within a community that was scoped
> > > > for building a distribution, then that decision would have been made
> > > > already and by the very same people who did the work to produce the
> > > > software.
> > > >
> > > > I told you this at the time the project was proposed, and you ignored
> > > > it to satisfy the immediate desire of the internal marketing team
> > > > at Sun.  Don't blame anyone else for these problems -- they are
> > > > entirely manufactured by your refusal to accept community input from
> > > > day one, and they will continue until the organization reflects the
> > > > reality of how you intend to govern this project (one way or another).
> > >
> > > Sorry, but that's wrong. There is currently nothing in the
> > > constitution that stipulates that projects must live under a certain
> > > community. Your claim otherwise is surprising given you drafted the
> > > constitution.
> >
> > Shawn go read the glossary. He isn't talking about a CG (Community
> > Group). He is talking about a community as in the "OpenSolaris
> > community". (Which is not a distro building community), vs. the
> > "Debian Community", which was a community scoped and formed around
> > building a distro called GNU/Linux. (Like Slackware).
>
> Sorry; I don't agree with your interpretation.
>
> > Basically Ian is trying to name a distro with the name of an existing
> > community, vs naming a community after the name of the distro they are
> > building.
>
> Sorry, I don't agree. The community may have the name, but it does not
> hold any rights to it nor exclusive usage of it. There already
> distributions using the name in other ways; shall I accuse them of
> attempting to represent us?

Are they using the Trademark in such a way that implys that they are
"representing us"?

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>
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>


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