The below shows that you are extremely out of touch regarding
what has been going on. As such, I have no problems with
ignoring it.

On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:55 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:

> The bottom line is that this is likely easy to resolve very quickly. A call 
> between a representative Apache board member, a Sonatype representative, and 
> a secretary to agree on the actions, and carry them out. That seems like a 
> pretty easy plan of action. Anything else just says to me that the board 
> doesn't really care what happens to the Maven project. I think Sonatype has 
> been reasonable, I think I can even dig up an email that says your legal 
> counsel thinks we have been reasonable. Just put the issue to rest and one of 
> you call Wayne. It's absurd that it's come to this. The Apache Board can put 
> this issue to rest, or permanently screw the project. I don't think it's in 
> anyone else's hands really except the Apache Board.
> 
> On Jun 17, 2011, at 9:22 AM, Doug Cutting wrote:
> 
>> On 06/17/2011 03:03 PM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
>>> What Sonatype was seeking was the use of "Maven Central" as a service
>>> mark in very much the same way Doug Cutting's company, Cloudera, has
>>> been granted a memorandum of understanding (MOU) for the service mark
>>> "Hadoop World". 
>> 
>> That's a separate issue from the "Maven" software product trademark.
>> Let's please not confuse them.  The action I described and the
>> attribution the ASF seeks is related to the product trademark, not any
>> service mark.
>> 
>>> ... Cloudera, a company founded by Doug Cutting ...
>> 
>> FWIW, I am not a Cloudera founder, just an employee.
>> 
>> Doug
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jason
> 
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> Jason van Zyl
> Founder,  Apache Maven
> http://twitter.com/jvanzyl
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> 
> What matters is not ideas, but the people who have them. Good people can fix 
> bad ideas, but good ideas can't save bad people. 
> 
>  -- Paul Graham
> 
> 
> 


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