On 7/21/2011 11:14 AM, Simon Phipps wrote:
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.
Oracle has been dealing with the Tightrope issue.
A.
S.
[1]
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/06/29/oracle_no_comment_on_downed_openoffice_org_url/
