Deryck Chan wrote: >"This time" misses the point of risk management - it's all probabilistic >rather than deterministic. It is totally reasonable for WMF to have judged >that the differences between the two logos are large enough that a >trademark claim is sufficiently *unlikely* to happen. But outliers do >occur >and in this case WTO chose (against perceived odds) to make a claim. And >it's totally reasonable, too, for the WMF to now judge that the risks of >going to court about this logo isn't worth fighting. > >Saying that WMF must've made a mistake last time because they allowed the >logo in the first place but then gave in on the trademark claim simply >misses the point.
Very well put. :-) MZMcBride _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l
