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

[michelle olson]

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get information that is out of date, promises not kept and a message to 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.

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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