On 01/11/2012 01:46 AM, Ron Chen wrote:
And I just found this one today:
http://www.univagridengine.com/
Again, as a contributor who has stayed with Oracle and Sun Grid Engine and Open
Grid Scheduler for
over 10 years, I think it is unacceptable to register a domain using other
company's product name.
More than merely wrong, it opens up the people/company who registered it
to legal action in the US if univa and/or gridengine are trademarks, or
copyrighted of a particular entity.
IANAL (included so I don't get sued for providing legal advice, which I
am definitely not doing). I can tell you my pedestrian understanding
is, that if someone else (person/entity) owns the name and marks you are
misrepresenting as your own, you open yourself up to a world of legal
hurt.
Trademark and copyright infringement all go to intent. If Chris Dag
owns "Dag's Muffin Shop" and has been operating this for a while, and
along comes Joe and he opens (weird writing in the third person) a
website named www.dagsmuffinshop.com in order to steal business from
Chris, then Joe is *begging* to be taken to court.
Same is true with the words Univa (very likely trademark Univa UD),
GridEngine (probably trademark Oracle, or Univa, or ...).
Chris's gridengine.info site is a good, positive site that ought to be
highly encouraged by the owners of the marks, as it makes their marks
more valuable (hint hint, but no one put me up to say this, nor do I
have any financial or other interest in any of this). Its quite
unlikely that someone who owns the marks would perceive that as a
threat. On the other hand, the purposefully misdirecting sites would
... quite likely ... inspire the ire of corporate legal folks. Highly
not recommended.
While Univa has been using FUD against open source, this is not the way to
revenge.
Success is the best revenge.
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