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

[Sara Dornsife]

Thanks Bonnie.

Bonnie Corwin wrote:
> 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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