This is no way to promote Free (as in freedom) Software. Then again Shuttleworth seems to have lost the narrative thread of Free Software. When the project began he used to talk about promoting Free Software all the time. Now? Not at all.
Ubuntu to you, Drew On Nov 8, 2013 4:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > Send Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list submissions to > [email protected] > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to > [email protected] > > You can reach the person managing the list at > [email protected] > > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific > than "Re: Contents of Ubuntu-us-ca digest..." > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (Grant Bowman) > 2. Re: Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (Troy Ready) > 3. Re: Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (Jono Bacon) > 4. Re: Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (C S) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:50:48 -0800 > From: Grant Bowman <[email protected]> > To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Subject: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > wow! > > RT @lcafiero RT @marciahofmann: Oh, Canonical. It's silly to use trademark > law to try to silence a critic! Especially a critic who works at @EFF. > https://t.co/25ipxoHxPY > > I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts? > > fyi, > Grant > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/attachments/20131107/d335ec2b/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:04:21 -0800 > From: Troy Ready <[email protected]> > To: Ubuntu US California <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical > Message-ID: > < > cam9f0atapm0-vs3zpo2xz+xxb1l856dfcmq8weapzn4oheq...@mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Doesn't seem that bad to me. I could agree that it's against "the spirit" > of open source, but they've put a ton of time and money into promoting the > brand of ubuntu and I don't think it's unreasonable for them to be wary of > allowing very negative websites using that branding to go unanswered. > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Grant Bowman <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > wow! > > > > RT @lcafiero RT @marciahofmann: Oh, Canonical. It's silly to use > trademark > > law to try to silence a critic! Especially a critic who works at @EFF. > > https://t.co/25ipxoHxPY > > > > I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts? > > > > fyi, > > Grant > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > > > > > > > -- > -Troy > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-us-ca/attachments/20131107/a8f05086/attachment-0001.html > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 3 > Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:07:24 -0800 > From: Jono Bacon <[email protected]> > To: Ubuntu US California <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical > Message-ID: > <CALA+0ernSEUpqvELuORVk+z_wrYuTvV=Q3MzQznA== > [email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > I don't think is trademark law to silence a critic. I think it is > trademark law to protect a trademark. > > Was news to me though and I am checking into it. > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Troy Ready <[email protected]> wrote: > > Doesn't seem that bad to me. I could agree that it's against "the > spirit" of > > open source, but they've put a ton of time and money into promoting the > > brand of ubuntu and I don't think it's unreasonable for them to be wary > of > > allowing very negative websites using that branding to go unanswered. > > > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Grant Bowman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> wow! > >> > >> RT @lcafiero RT @marciahofmann: Oh, Canonical. It's silly to use > trademark > >> law to try to silence a critic! Especially a critic who works at @EFF. > >> https://t.co/25ipxoHxPY > >> > >> I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts? > >> > >> fyi, > >> Grant > >> > >> -- > >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > -Troy > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > > [email protected] > > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > > > > > > -- > Jono Bacon > Ubuntu Community Manager > www.ubuntu.com / www.jonobacon.org > www.identi.ca/jonobacon www.twitter.com/jonobacon > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 4 > Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:08:32 -0800 > From: C S <[email protected]> > To: Ubuntu US California <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical > Message-ID: <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > I can see both sides of the coin on this one. However, I feel that > Ubuntu should be more transparent about their search/privacy policy and > be upfront with users about having the option to disable the search > function, if so desired. > > > On 11/07/2013 05:07 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: > > I don't think is trademark law to silence a critic. I think it is > > trademark law to protect a trademark. > > > > Was news to me though and I am checking into it. > > > > On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Troy Ready <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Doesn't seem that bad to me. I could agree that it's against "the > spirit" of > >> open source, but they've put a ton of time and money into promoting the > >> brand of ubuntu and I don't think it's unreasonable for them to be wary > of > >> allowing very negative websites using that branding to go unanswered. > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Grant Bowman <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> wow! > >>> > >>> RT @lcafiero RT @marciahofmann: Oh, Canonical. It's silly to use > trademark > >>> law to try to silence a critic! Especially a critic who works at @EFF. > >>> https://t.co/25ipxoHxPY > >>> > >>> I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts? > >>> > >>> fyi, > >>> Grant > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > >>> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> -Troy > >> > >> -- > >> Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > >> [email protected] > >> Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > >> > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------ > > -- > Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list > [email protected] > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca > > > End of Ubuntu-us-ca Digest, Vol 78, Issue 5 > ******************************************* >
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