Also just as a legal aside, Ubuntu is _actually_ a real word in a real living language. As such no court in any country on God's Green Earth would do more than merely laugh the case out as it has no merit. I name a distro 'community' and trademark it (not likely but if I use a no my English equivalent) does that mean I own it? Of course not. I'm not saying this to be a jerk to Canonical as I have the deepest respect; I'm saying this so people don't get unduly cross. Trademark a graphic of your own design? Yes. Trademark a living (and historical) word & concept? No. On Nov 8, 2013 10:09 AM, "nuboon2age" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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. 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