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

[Shawn Walker]

On 13/06/07, Dirk Wetter <dirk.wetter at drwetter.org> 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 get information that is out of date, promises not kept and a message to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.
>
> 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?

No, since at this point, Solaris Express is still a Sun product. And
in the case of SXDE, one you can buy support from Sun for.

Fedora, in contrast, is not something you can buy support for from
RedHat, and is purposefully distanced from it.

The only way what you suggest will work is if we actually have an
OpenSolaris distribution.

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Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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