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I love that. Juan- -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Sent: Monday, October 10, 2005 12:43 PM To: Commercial and Business-Oriented Asterisk Discussion Subject: Re: [Asterisk-biz] Asterisk Ffork - OpenPBX.org That's why the open source version of staroffice became openoffice.org rather than openoffice(somebody else owns that). Maybe digium needs to consider allowing a name like openasterisk or asteriskorg to be used freely in order to preserve rights for Asterisk(tm)? William Lloyd wrote: > Selectively prosecuting trademark and copyright infringement is a > problem. Unless a company is shown to be defending a trademark in > all cases of infringement then you can possibly lose the trademark. > Unless of course you negotiate and have a license with people to use it. > > This article says it better.. > > http://www.entreworld.org/Content/EntreByline.cfm?ColumnID=180 > > Specifically this bit seems relevant... > > A company that tolerates misuse of its marks by the public and/or > fails to enforce quality control standards in any licensing of the > mark may lose its trademark rights, and, therefore, one of its most > valuable weapons in the war for market share. > > -bill > > > > On 10-Oct-05, at 10:58 AM, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: > >> Peter Nixon wrote: >> >> >>> So what you are saying is that what Novell and SUSE do by >>> distributing Asterisk with OpenH323, Spandsp, BRIStuff and a few >>> other patches all together on their FTP site, CDs and DVDs (not to >>> mention all of the 3rd party mirrors) and calling them collectively >>> Asterisk is illegal. Given that they have been doing so for longer >>> than 12 months and there is no way that Digium could have not know >>> about this has Digium filed suit against Novell for this (According >>> to you) Trademark and Copyright infringing behavior? >>> >> >> I'm saying that it is possible for this behavior to be considered a >> license/trademark infringement, if Digium chose to do so. Then >> again, IANAL, so I can't say with certainty that this is true... we >> will need to get some more clear trademark licensing documentation >> written before anyone could say conclusively exactly what sort of >> modifications are allowed without infringement. >> _______________________________________________ >> Asterisk-Biz mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz >> > > _______________________________________________ > Asterisk-Biz mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz _______________________________________________ Asterisk-Biz mailing list [email protected] http://lists.digium.com/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-biz
