Philip Hands <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > This sort of hijacking of our name is the reason for having a trademark on > it -- We should clearly protect our users from the confusion that the DCC > name is bound to cause by issuing a cease & desist letter forthwith.
If the above argument is persuasive, please send one to the group trading as "Debian-UK" chaired by Phil Hands (distinct from the mailing list with a similar name). The following seems to apply equally well, with UK instead of Core: > It beggars belief that anyone with more than a passing acquaintance with > The Debian Project would think that they had a right to set something up > calling it Debian Core _anything_, whether they sought approval from the > project as a whole or not. > > To present it as a fait accomplis was bound to cause bad feeling, which I > think is evidence of either malicious intent or stunning lack of > imagination for the consequences of one's actions -- either way I don't see > how we can trust them to be issuing statements which will be perceived by > the world to have come from the project. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
