Just for the record, as a 'member of the community' or whatever, I don't like this.
Sean, you might want to consider keeping tighter control over your trademarks. Just because you are opening your phone, you don't have to open your trademarks for people to use in their own profit making ventures. This looks to me like some guy will probably make some money (even if it's only a couple of Euros) by slapping your trademark on some cafepress-type site - essentially free-riding on the interest you guys have created in this project by doing little more that cutting and pasting your trademarks. Even if this guy isn't making much, the site is. I'd prefer to see you guys make your own t-shirts, and have the money actually go to support the project. I think it's important to make a distinction between opening your source and opening your wallet. As an avid open source guy, I still support you guys maintaining control over your trademarks (for profit making purposes, at least... When controlling one's trademarks becomes a means of censorship, my support dwindles significantly, but that wouldn't be the case here.) If you're thinking that the community wouldn't support you if you denied some guy the right to stick your logo on a cafepress t-shirt, I think you're wrong. I think that in order for this project, and open phones generally, to succeed, it will be important for you and FIC to be able to make a profit - I think it's totally reasonable for you to maintain control over your ability to capitalize on your marks. If anyone should be making a couple of euros from OpenMoko shirts it should be you guys. ROB _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
