On Jun 15 2013 12:42 PM, John Kasunich wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 15, 2013, at 02:38 PM, EBo wrote:
>
>> Sorry.  I must have misread your name with the (sourceforge) BLOCKS
>> post.  I figure that if that was you then we could ditch that and 
>> start
>> a new one with MachineKit.
>
> I was the one who started the BLOCS project at SF.  As far as I'm
> concerned it is dead, we can ignore it and do whatever we please
> now.
>
>>
>> Using the name is not right out yet...  Email the people over at
>> machinekit.com and see if they would mid to much us using the name 
>> for a
>> machinetool project -- including a disambugation page to point them 
>> to
>> their site if someone stumbles onto use from them.
>
> If they were a corporation with possible trademark rights that
> might be important.  A blog, not so much.
>
>> Unfortunately, all the MachineKit.(com,net,org) is all taken...  Oh
>> well.
>
> Yes, they are taken.  But .net and .org are taken by our very own
> Michael Haberler, with exactly this usage in mind.  So all is well.

Well then 8-)))  That's different.

I would suggest registering the trademark (without going after the 
blog).  Maybe notify them as a courtesy and offer a disambiguation link 
if agreeable.

   EBo --

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