Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 22nd Feb 2008 19:58 UTC, submitted by diegocg
Dissatisfaction has surfaced in the OpenSolaris community. The dispute centers around how derivatives can use the OpenSolaris name and branding. Sun says that permitting broad downstream use of the OpenSolaris name would risk diluting the Solaris trademark, and it has stated that a policy needs to be established on how the name can and cannot be used. A member of the governance board has resigned. This looks similar to what happened with the Mozilla trademark.
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2007-08-03
Don't know what the big deal is.Mozilla took the same stance not so long ago.
If one wanted to play the devils advocate one could argue that the mozilla foundation asks for donations,doesn't pay taxes and on top of that gets a load of money from different deals while sun is a company that pays taxes and officially has to make money to survive.
Now which of the two would depend on keeping their brandname 'clean' so there is no confusion with other brands?
Sun that has to post a profit or mozilla that doesn't?