[osol-mktg] [osol-discuss] Update on "Based on OpenSolaris" wordmark [was "... on OpenSolaris" is an oxymoron]

[Claire Giordano]

I have a bit more (sigh) legwork to do to finalize the lightweight TM license 
that is needed to enable some kind of "based on OpenSolaris" or "includes 
OpenSolaris technology" or "powered by OpenSolaris" tagline, that spells out 
what standards need to be met in order to call yourself that.

It seems to make sense to have some kind of standard - I suppose it would be 
confusing for customers to see a product that purports to be "based on 
OpenSolaris" which does not include a single line of OpenSolaris source code.

We're aiming for a really low bar - something like any derived work that 
contains at least 1 OpenSolaris source file - still need to noodle that one a 
bit and I welcome comments.

And in the meantime, I'd love input, comments, votes on the 3 "taglines" I'm 
considering.

PLS SEND THEM TO ME PRIVATELY if possible.  I don't want you guys to influence 
each other.  I'll send out a summary of input received, I promise (although, 
depending on when and how much input I get, the summary may not come out til 
after my Aug vacation.)

	- Based on OpenSolaris
	- includes OpenSolaris technology
	- Powered by OpenSolaris

The 3rd one has an alternate meaning - it could also be used to flag any system 
that is running on the OpenSolaris bits.

Comments welcome.
Claire

p.s.
Dennis Clarke wrote:

> On 7/15/05, Eric Boutilier <Eric.Boutilier at sun.com> wrote:
> 
>>Because these forums are surely being read by many (probably thousands)
>>of people who are far less familiar with Solaris/OpenSolaris than the
>>people who post here, I'd like to strongly caution people about the use
>>of the phrase "on OpenSolaris"
> 
> 
> Its like "runs on Linux" as opposed to "runs on Red Hat" or "Runs on
> SUSE" or "runs on Windows NT 4.0" etc etc.
> 
> I think that runs on OpenSolaris is just fine for the sake of general
> discussion really.
> 
> I have no idea how else to put it really.
> 
> Runs on Nevada ? Runs on snv_16 or nv_xx? I don't think that will help
> people understand.
> 
> Dennis
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