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

[Dirk Wetter]

Hi Sara, Michelle,

Am 13.06.07 22:44, michelle olson schrieb:
> Hi Sara,
> 
> 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 get information that is out of date, promises not kept and a message to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'.
> 
> 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.

It's kind of off topic but since you and Sara seems to be reading this: if
you install SXDE/SXCR you get all over the place Solaris, not OpenSolaris
logos. That is also inconsistent and it is probably confusing everybody
outside Sun.

If you install the community distribution OpenSuse you will see
logos/coporate look and feel of the community distribution Opensuse, but
not of Novell's commercial counter part SLED/SLES. Same with Fedora/RHEL.

Isn't this the way it should be?


Cheers,
	Dirk

PS: RHEL= Red Hat Enterprise Linux
    SLES/D= Suse Enterprise Server/Desktop

> Thanks,
> Michelle
> 
> Sara Dornsife wrote:
>> Joerg Schilling wrote:
>>> Patrick Finch <Patrick.Finch at Sun.COM> wrote:
>>>
>>>  
>>>> Some confusion for some people perhaps, but it is possible to
>>>> communicate a change.  For the last 2 years I have been dealing with
>>>> the confusion that "OpenSolaris" is not a bootable OS.
>>>>
>>>> I can understand that there might be objections to naming a distro
>>>> "OpenSolaris" for other reasons, but I don't accept that the risk of
>>>> confusing people should disqualify the idea.
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Do you like to recommend to use the name "diesel" as brand name for
>>> diesel oil product?
>>>   
>>
>> I don't know about that, but I do know that when I go to Fedora or
>> Ubuntu or OpenOffice or Netbeans or Eclipse or PostgreSQL or SugarCRM
>> (and so on), I do download something by the same name. It is common
>> practice and expected.
>>
>>> There are other similar cases. People just did learn that "OpenSolaris"
>>> is not a product name but the name for a software base.
>>>
>>> Jörg
>>>
>>>   
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