Lori Bowen Ayre <[email protected]> > I say this with the community interests at heart. I really believe it > would be best to walk away from this fight. Disengage and focus on what is > most important.
And when should we stop running away and stand our ground, exactly? Before private corporations use trademarks to limit all languages? How weak should we let their claims be before we dispute them? We should take care of this beautiful Koha, defend this lovely gift from Horowhenua, so far as we are reasonably able. As the original commissioner, I think HLT was a joint first user of the mark in NZ and Koha has been in continuous use in their libraries, so it's absurd to try to deny them use of it, isn't it? It was a tactical error that the .org domain went to the supply side of that original relationship and it was a tactical error to let Liblime register a dodgy US trademark despite other earlier US Koha developers. Nevertheless, HLT still used the mark as part of delivering their library services in Horowhenua for all this time. Why should US corporations get away with such outrageous expropriation? If there was no HLT, there would probably have been no Koha LMS, so there would have been no business for Liblime to buy and thus no Liblime for PTFS to buy! I'll put this to the co-op's next meeting, but my view is clear: Occupy Koha! -- MJ Ray (slef), member of www.software.coop, a for-more-than-profit co-op. Webmaster, Debian Developer, Past Koha RM, statistician, former lecturer. In My Opinion Only: see http://mjr.towers.org.uk/email.html Available for hire for various work through http://www.software.coop/ _______________________________________________ Koha-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-devel website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
