On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 17:40 +0200, ext Greg KH wrote: > Of course, a "real" cease-and-desist order would have to be filed for > any of this to be able to be properly discussed, which I think, is the > proper next step of the Linux Foundation if they really wish to persue > this issue.
Greg, do you enjoy legal escalation? I'm sure nobody in this list does. In marketing terms "Smeegol" is a perfect example of MeeGo brand dilution. You wouldn't have called it Smeegol if there would not have been MeeGo in the first place. Have you acted with malice? No Have you done it secretly? No Are you pursuing a success damaging the MeeGo project? No For all this reasons a cease-and-desist would be a bad (and probably pointless) approach. This is about common sense and community dialog now. You warned about your intentions in this list weeks ago. Somehow the Linux Foundation & MeeGo TSG didn't react at the time in the way they did when the posts about the Smeegol release came under their radar. Yes, this problem could have been solved with a simple rename weeks ago. Now you have extra work with a name change and the corresponding explanation. Still, Smeegol *is* a precedent of brand dilution and bad precendents are really bad for young brands. Ultimately your project depends on a bruight and successful MeeGo project and we kindly ask you to help on that by renaming your even younger project. Please pick something unrelated to "MeeGo", keep using the software following the linceses of each component, keep helping to the propagation and improvement of that software and all we will be happy in this happy MeeGo family. At the end, is it a big deal? Anybody in the free software community has seen plenty of project re-brands for various reasons, most of them without much hassle or big deals. Sorry for the hassle and thank you for your understanding. -- Quim _______________________________________________ MeeGo-dev mailing list MeeGo-dev@meego.com http://lists.meego.com/listinfo/meego-dev
