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

[Stephen Lau]

Dirk Wetter wrote:
> 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 get information that is out of date, promises not kept and a message to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.

That's perfectly reasonable.  Solaris is Sun's distribution of OpenSolaris.

Sun does not (currently) ship a binary distribution called OpenSolaris.

> 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?

10 PRINT "OpenSolaris is not a distribution."
20 GOTO 10

:)

cheers,
steve
(woohoo... I haven't written BASIC in years)
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