Andrew Suffield wrote: >Not much we can do about that, if true. Sounds like the old "free >software destroys intellectual property" noise.
For reasons that aren't entirely clear to me, people still listen to us. If we can provide a semi-convincing argument that trademarks don't need copyright protection, the "But Debian says trademarks don't need copyright protection" position will have some influence. >I don't really think that trademarks fit with the spirit of free >software (despite it being possible to use them), and I'd raise >serious questions about why they're trying to use them at all. Raising >artificial barriers to forking is a *bad* thing. I think Sun has fairly obvious reasons for wanting to use its trademarks in its software. -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]