If there were no BoD, but OSM were still a true crowd driven organization, there would not have been a place to address this notice....
Put up a tree and you are sure to catch wind ! Geert Van: Jeff Meyer [mailto:[email protected]] Verzonden: vrijdag 1 februari 2013 19:07 Aan: Manfred A. Reiter CC: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue Team - The OSMF BoD is doing the job for which its members were elected. Thank goodness. There's a trademark. We've been served notice (I believe). The board has made a decision. The chairman of the board (probably a (tm) term...) has communicated this decision. Fine, disagree, but please disagree with a plan for how to fund your alternate plan, describing in detail the source of new funds or what other OSMF activities should be de-funded to support this plan. Yes, it sounds silly to trademark geocode, yes, it's a US-only thing, but these issues are solved in courts, with real money for real lawyers, not well-reasoned arguments on email threads supported by personal moral and ethical constructs and not law. Personally, I'm glad the OSMF BoD is taking care of this so I don't have to. As Mr. W said, I'd rather be mapping... - Jeff On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Manfred A. Reiter <[email protected]> wrote: On 01/02/13 17:49, Richard Weait wrote: > @andres / @cartinus, such a trade mark has been issued by USPTO > > http://weait.com/content/trade-mark > > Anyone who cares to pick up this fight with their money, is likely to be > able to do so very simply. Oh, come on: "Get up, stand up..." and "I shot the sheriff" come to my mind. I always hear money. Is that really all that counts. Let us fight and win and not behave like the octopuses want us to. +1 This would be much better publicity than we can get by connecting our social community with main stream social media. +1 _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk -- Jeff Meyer Global World History Atlas www.gwhat.org [email protected] 206-676-2347 <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> osm: Historical OSM <http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM> / my OSM user page <http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer> t: @GWHAThistory <https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory> f: GWHAThistory <https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory>
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