On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi... I guess I've become the minority. I still believe that the name > "Sugar On A Stick" should be allowed for all distributions of Sugar on a usb > stick or even a live CD. > Caryl, I think I'm in the minority with you. And I don't think that "letting anyone who wants to call their work 'Sugar on a Stick'" will get in the way with the practical marketing decisions around it. This doesn't strike me as a legal issue*, mainly a social and practical one. But there seems to be consensus in the rest of the community about making this a precise term, and I don't feel strongly about it. SJ * Recent surveys on the uses of copyright suggest technologists have a tendency to focus on legalism; in contrast to students and free culture groups, for instance. I would guess the same holds for uses of trademark. > Sugar Labs can control and identify their special builds in a special > way... "SoaS by SugarLabs" or whatever, but the term has already become so > generic that trying to make it exclusive at this point seems to be a waste > of time and energy. > > Caryl > (one who remembers and longs for the days when free, open source software > really was free and open source...in the early 1980s). > :-)
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