On 21 Jul 2011, at 06:31, Marcus (OOo) wrote: > Am 07/21/2011 01:11 PM, schrieb Eike Rathke: >> Hi Peter, >> >> On Thursday, 2011-07-21 09:21:45 +0800, Peter Junge wrote: >> >>>> Once this is cooked, I'm eager for us to pick up the threads on trademark >>>> enforcement against "subscription fraud" abusers of the trademarks. >>> >>> This is indeed a big and painful issue that should somehow be >>> tackled. I think the I remember the former lead of the German OOo >>> Marketing Project had collected several hundreds of cases of >>> subscription fraud with OOo. >> >> About 2000 reported cases as of June 2010, see >> http://de.openoffice.org/abgezockt/ (all in German) > > Wow, what a frigthening number of cases. :-O
And there are many more in other countries. Defending the OpenOffice.org trademark just against this nasty abuse is a full-time project. I would be be happy to participate in it once Apache has standing. Also, Shane & Andrew, do you know whether Oracle has objected to the trademark application by Tightrope Interactive that was reported in The Register[1]? It would be very sad to see that one fall through the cracks during the hand-over. S. [1] http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/oracle_no_comment_on_downed_openoffice_org_url/
