[ug-discuss] Re: [osol-mktg] Sponsor Project Indiana

[Simon Phipps]

On Jun 13, 2007, at 21:44, michelle olson wrote:

> Your common practice is fine, let's take it a step further. When I  
> go to fedora web site http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal/ 
> TrademarkGuidelines and read about the trademark usage, I get  
> information that makes sense. This is not the case when I go to  
> http://opensolaris.org/os/trademark/ I get information that is out  
> of date, promises not kept and a message to 'stay tuned'.

The content of the page appears to my eyes to be correct and to be in- 
sync with the Constitution, and the last-updated date in March is old  
but not ancient. I believe you are being too harsh. We certainly do  
need answers from Sun. In the current context of change we may need  
some questions /to/ Sun first, though.

> Will we be fixing that? Will parties be authorized to use the  
> trademark? Under what conditions? Will there be guidelines? How  
> about a mailing list for questions? These details and information  
> about how any of these rules are going to change in support of the  
> new effort is the critical information that we need to provide.

Great questions. But since the "new effort" is too new to have any  
plans yet, it's premature to expect this page to be decided in  
advance of it. I can't get over the way folk keep assuming Sun is  
orchestrating a behind-the scenes game and then by turns criticise  
Sun for either doing so or for failing to do so.

S.

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