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Topic: Another Damn Small??, Taking from Distrowatch: Damn Small BSD

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Posted: Feb. 04 2008,10:39

Comparing hate mail and ramen
Spicyness, volume, texture
Hate mail is junk food of FOSS

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Posted: Feb. 18 2008,19:35

I saw "Damn Small Solaris" on Distrowatch today.

Is this another DSL encroachment?

http://www.sunhelp.ru/archive....ru.html

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lucky13

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Posted: Feb. 19 2008,18:43

I also saw this yesterday.

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Is this another DSL encroachment?

Yes, and it likely is also infringing on Sun's trademark since they're restrictive about use of the name Solaris. Maybe Sun has given permission to use their trademark. I doubt it.

Earlier in this thread I noted that OpenSolaris derivatives use unique names and that Sun expressly forbids the use of Solaris without their permission. I don't know if John has taken or will take action with this kind of thing, but I know for a fact Sun has a big legal department. Could get very interesting.

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clivesay

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Posted: Feb. 19 2008,19:57

You think these people could be a little original in their naming instead of trying to ride on DSL's coattails. John may have to look into this.

Chris

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Posted: Feb. 19 2008,22:49

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You think these people could be a little original in their naming instead of trying to ride on DSL's coattails.

They admit as much on their site, even though it's in Russian. They're using DSL as a model from JWM through the applications (beaver, emelfm, etc.).

They put out an appeal on the OpenSolaris forums but nobody's replied to the thread:
http://opensolaris.org/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=202671&tstart=0

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