>I believe it's totally ok to talk about Windows or Apple or iPods without saying Windows® or iPod™
Do we have an obligation to refer to someone else's property in the manner they want it to be referred? You may believe that it is okay to refer to the intellectual property without the symbols, but the property owners would disagree, as stated in their trademark policies. >Apple and Microsoft refer to themselves all the time without using funny symbols next to their names. I also don't recall any instance of a property owner displaying the trademark symbol when referring to its own property, but the stated policies are guidelines for how the owner wants third parties to refer to its property, in order to protect its brand. For example, when you see references to Facebook and Twitter in text, the trademarks will generally start with capital letters, per their respective trademark guidelines, in even though the stylized trademarks (i.e. on their website) feature all lowercase letters. >Those symbols makes things harder to read which is why they aren't used much >outside of logos or advertisements. > >The change also introduces complexity and inconsistency. Generally the trademark policies state that the first promient reference to the property must display the trademark symbol and subsequent references don't have to display it. >Why don't we care about the trademarks of Pidgin or Xubuntu? I did search for information regard a trademark for Pidgin and I only found a reference to a trademark in a mailing list and nothing else to confirm it. I was unaware of Xubuntu's trademark and honestly did not look into it. I'll have time to do whatever the consensus is. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1063453 Title: references to 3rd-party intellectual property need to be displayed with trademark To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xubuntu-docs/+bug/1063453/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
