Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

2013-11-08 Thread Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph
On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Josh Berkus wrote: > On 11/07/2013 05:07 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: >> I don't think is trademark law to silence a critic. I think it is >> trademark law to protect a trademark. > > Seems more likely to be inadequate staff lawyer supervision to me. If > you leave the co

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

2013-11-08 Thread Philip Ballew
I think in order to fully understand this issue, we need to see all sides of the story, and not a blog post of one of the people involved in the event taking place. This email is a re-tweet from someone who is largely very anti Canonical, This list needs to find a way to get a clear and concise und

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

2013-11-08 Thread Peter Sullivan
Darn phone keyboard: "non-English" On Nov 8, 2013 10:19 AM, "Peter Sullivan" wrote: > Also just as a legal aside, Ubuntu is _actually_ a real word in a real > living language. As such no court in any country on God's Green Earth would > do more than merely laugh the case out as it has no merit. >

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

2013-11-08 Thread Peter Sullivan
Also just as a legal aside, Ubuntu is _actually_ a real word in a real living language. As such no court in any country on God's Green Earth would do more than merely laugh the case out as it has no merit. I name a distro 'community' and trademark it (not likely but if I use a no my English equival

[Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

2013-11-08 Thread nuboon2age
This is no way to promote Free (as in freedom) Software. Then again Shuttleworth seems to have lost the narrative thread of Free Software. When the project began he used to talk about promoting Free Software all the time. Now? Not at all. Ubuntu to you, Drew On Nov 8, 2013 4:00 AM, wrote: > Sen

Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

2013-11-08 Thread Josh Berkus
On 11/07/2013 05:07 PM, Jono Bacon wrote: > I don't think is trademark law to silence a critic. I think it is > trademark law to protect a trademark. Seems more likely to be inadequate staff lawyer supervision to me. If you leave the corporate lawyers to their own devices, they get into all kinds