[ogb-discuss] Sun's Responses to the OpenSolaris Trademark Questions

[Martin Bochnig]

Alan DuBoff wrote:
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> On Thu, 14 Feb 2008, Roy T. Fielding wrote:
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> > In any case, I am done with it.  I hereby resign my status
> > as a Member of the OpenSolaris Community, effective immediately.
> 
> Ok, best of luck with your future endeavors!
> 
> Although you call your labor free, I don't think it is without cost to 
> Sun, IMO. Just look at the current situation with the OpenSolaris 
> community, it's a real mess...


This is a ridiculous insult against Dr. Fielding, as well as against all other volunteers who use(d?) to invest much (if not most) of their spare time, thoughts, money and whatever further resources (e.g. neglected families, neglected careers ...) into what previously had been called "OpenSolaris".

Certainly true: SMI does pay for opensolaris.org, right. But SMI would pay way *more* if Solaris development would still be done (entirely) behind their firewalls, without this PR-attractive pseudo-"open" public interface. Who else, if not SMI, has the biggest corporate interest in running opensolaris.org? Who else gets the ROI?

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Martin Bochnig

For a moment let me also start to list references, just as many others do:
SCSecA
SCNetA
SCSysA
bochnig at pool.math.tu-berlin.de
www.martux.org/xorg
http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/conary-eval/
...


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> Alan DuBoff - Solaris x86 IHV/OEM Group