Re: Trademark misuse by gonicus?

2007-07-19 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 08:40:21AM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:10:05PM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote: > > But how do you compare the use of the trademark in a phone number to its > > use in a domain name? For the latter, http://www.debian.org/trademark > > explicitely forbid

Re: Trademark misuse by gonicus?

2007-07-19 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 06:10:05PM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote: > But how do you compare the use of the trademark in a phone number to its > use in a domain name? For the latter, http://www.debian.org/trademark > explicitely forbids that: > > "To be fair to all businesses, we insist that no business u

Re: Trademark misuse by gonicus?

2007-07-18 Thread Ingo Saitz
But how do you compare the use of the trademark in a phone number to its use in a domain name? For the latter, http://www.debian.org/trademark explicitely forbids that: "To be fair to all businesses, we insist that no business use the name Debian in the name of the business, or a domain name of th

Re: Trademark misuse by gonicus?

2007-07-18 Thread MJ Ray
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:23:05PM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote: > > On http://www.gonicus.de/ in the lower right corner you can see an ad > > for the companys enterprise support hotline: 0800 4 DEBIAN: > > You're allowed (by law) to use a trademark to refer t

Re: Trademark misuse by gonicus?

2007-07-18 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 03:23:05PM +0200, Ingo Saitz wrote: > Michael Schmitt "TCW" noted on IRCnet, that http://www.gonicus.de/ uses > the Debian trademark in a phone number. Since this is similar to domain > names, I think Debian should take some action. > > On http://www.gonicus.de/ in the lowe

Trademark misuse by gonicus?

2007-07-18 Thread Ingo Saitz
Moin Michael Schmitt "TCW" noted on IRCnet, that http://www.gonicus.de/ uses the Debian trademark in a phone number. Since this is similar to domain names, I think Debian should take some action. On http://www.gonicus.de/ in the lower right corner you can see an ad for the companys enterprise sup