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

[Sara Dornsife]

> 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?
>   

Not off topic actually as it speaks to the branding of the Sun 
distribution. This goes to the TM questions that Michelle was asking. I 
don't think we have answers yet, but where the OpenSolaris TM can and 
should be used are questions that we should all be asking. You are 
illustrating one of the places TMs are used.

>
> 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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