On Thursday 11 January 2007 07:01, Josephblack wrote: > On 11/01/07, Jack Carroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:17:52AM +0100, Nicolas Boulay wrote: > > > What about "FOSS friendly hardware project" ? > > > > I think that's a good descriptive phrase to use in > > literature and web pages. > > How could OHF protect some of these good ideas regard wording, so as > to prevent this being misused by competitors? We have already had > mentioned how words like 'Open' or 'open standard' these days, > sometimes conveys the implication that it requires large payments for > poor information. > > If OHF can somehow protect these names and descriptions we can safely > use them. eg. We could say we are using this with permission and > approval of OHF.
Well, trademark law comes to mind. But the term would have to be specific enough. I can see the OHF trademarking a "Freely Usable Hardware" logo, and only allow people to put it onto their packaging if their hardware conforms to our definition of freely usable. Lourens
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