Looks like Oracle might not own the trademark to Hudson after all: The Register says that Oracle filed for the trademark (in the EU, at least) after discussion started about a move to github.
...a well-placed former Sun Microsystems employee has contacted The Regto say that Sun took an "explicit decision" not to apply for a trademark on the name Hudson. A search of the US Patent and Trademark Office's website throws up 623 trademarks for Hudson for many things, but not for the project Oracle owns. Oracle's making a customer grab here (from "Oracle claims trademark on Hudson open source"): These are customers that Oracles wants. It wants to tie them to its own developer and tools roadmap. It's not clear what plans Oracle has for Hudson, but there's every possibility Oracle would like to have Hudson integrated through Kenai with its own Java IDE and tools JDeveloper. --- Other projects not trademarked, bet Oracle is sweeping across them now and doing it, a race to trademark. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
