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

[Dirk Wetter]

Am 13.06.07 23:39, Stephen Lau schrieb:
> 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 get information that is out of date, promises not kept and a message to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.

Sorry Stephen, but RHEL is also Red Hat's distribution of Fedora Core. That
was my point you just underlined.

Your argument should have been "SX?E is Sun's distribution of OpenSolaris".

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

If there is a COMMUNITY distribution there should IMHO be no logos of Sun
in there unless want to insinuate "hey, we open sourced our code, but it's
still ours and may be it'll be in the future". Or just don't name it
"community" and don't host discussions on that on opensolaris.org. This all
independent of what happens with Indiana.

It kind of reminded me on the 'The Register' article Ian quoted in his
blog. Sun is confusing everybody. :-) You should get the naming and
apperance better and may be a little bit more consistent in what steak
comes from which cow and stands on which pasture ground.

Hopefully recent discussions bring this also a leap forward.


Cheers,
	Dirk


>> 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
> 
> :)

Hopefully there's no serious code you've written like this anywhere ;-)
[SCNR, that was just a too good invitation :-) ]


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




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