On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Josh Berkus <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > Seems more likely to be inadequate staff lawyer supervision to me. If > you leave the corporate lawyers to their own devices, they get into all > kinds of trouble.
Yeah, that does seem to be what happened here. Canonical has released an official blog post about the incident here: http://blog.canonical.com/2013/11/08/trademarks-community-and-criticism/ And Mark's more personal apology on G+: https://plus.google.com/116812394236590806058/posts/5jdibY5iR9b "I guess a new guy made a bad call" > On the other hand, I'd never have known about FixUbuntu if it wasn't for > this, so there's that. Same here. Hooray for the Streisand effect :) -- Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph || Lyz || pleia2 http://www.princessleia.com -- Ubuntu-us-ca mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-us-ca
