[osol-discuss] [osol-mktg] Upcoming Anniversary Activities for OpenSolaris User Groups

[Bonnie Corwin]

Last time I talked to Steven Schulman about this, it was in the context
of mirroring (same problem - we can provide it for download; other
people can't).  He said we would have to write a contract with whoever
wanted to mirror so that they would essentially be an OEM.

I can ask again, but I'm thinking they will be skittish - because of the
problem of restricting it to this kind of hand-out thing but preventing
people from re-distributing for a price and competing with us for our
own product.

Our lawyer is out of town next week, so I can ask when she returns -
week of 5/12.

Bonnie

Stephen Lau wrote On 04/26/06 14:27,:
> Is there anyway to get the redistribution clause relaxed?  It seems 
> counterintuitive to me that we're attempting to build a community here 
> and encouraging people to evangelise OpenSolaris -- and then restricting 
> people from burning and distributing Solaris Express CDs/DVDs.
> 
> cheers,
> steve
> 
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
> 
>>Yeah, thanks Bonnie. Stephen just mentioned that to me too. It's a 
>>bummer, but it is better than nothing. We don't have anything from 
>>Dennis. From my understanding, he stopped working on it and won't 
>>deliver if we don't pay him for it.
>>Sara
>>
>>
>>Bonnie Corwin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hi Sara,
>>>
>>>just remember that we have to be a little careful with CDs built from
>>>Solaris Express.  Sun can hand those out with hardcopy licenses because
>>>it's our distribution.  But we can't let other people create them and
>>>hand them out because it only comes with a right-to-use (RTU) license.
>>>No distribution rights.
>>>
>>>Bonnie
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Sara Dornsife wrote On 04/26/06 13:36,:
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>>I like the idea a lot. We don't have the "Band of Brothers" ISO yet
>>>>though. We do have what Stephen Lau has been handing out which is based
>>>>on the Solaris Express Community Edition. Would that work?
>>>>
>>>>Any ideas on how many we might go through in a given month? We can make
>>>>the ISO and DVD artwork available on line so that they can be produced
>>>>anywhere by anyone who would like to.
>>>>
>>>>Is this proposal in addition to the other suggestions, or in place of?
>>>>Laura had suggested a worldwide user group effort. Are you thinking that
>>>>that isn't a good idea? Any of the others?
>>>>Sara
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Erast Benson wrote:
>>>>
>>>>   
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>On Wed, 2006-04-26 at 02:19 -0300, Ignacio Marambio Catán wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>>I think we should do what we do best, give away software, I know what
>>>>>>I'm about to say is a bit impossible because of the time constraints,
>>>>>>cost and others. Do we still have that band of brothers DVD? I was
>>>>>>thinking about giving it away, shipping it even, everywhere, for free,
>>>>>>yes, ubuntu like to everyone that visits the www.opensolaris.org web
>>>>>>site. We could even include in the DVD the "happy birthday song" and
>>>>>>change the cover of the DVD to something more suitable for the ocation   :)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>ohh, and we need a birthday banner for the site :P
>>>>>>  
>>>>>>
>>>>>>       
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>+7 :-)
>>>>>
>>>>>That is the best idea to promote OpenSolaris so far I heard on this
>>>>>forum. It works really really well for promoting Ubuntu and I don't see
>>>>>why it will not work for us.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>     
>>>>>
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