Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:38:46 +0100 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mail25@bzerk.org Subject: Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil Message-ID: <863a1axhyh.fsf@ds4.des.no> In-Reply-To: <201002092030.o19KUH6Q029299@fire.js.berklix.net> (Julian H. Stacey's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:30:17 %2B0100") References: <201002092030.o19KUH6Q029299@fire.js.berklix.net>
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"Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> writes: > "Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav" <des@des.no> writes: > > There is no need to register a trademark. > Agreed, probably no Need,=20 > but there might be some benefit to some commercial interests. In this particular case? I'd say it's just a waste of money. > There's Linux trademarks in Germany (so prob. in others countries), > [SUSE chameleon] SUSE is a German company - or was, before they were acquired by Novell, but they still have offices in Germany and do business there. I imagine Novell have registered their various trademarks in all countries in which they do business; I also imagine it costs them millions of dollars a year. Besides, there is a huge difference between a logo for a specific *commercial* product from a specific company on the one hand, and a mascot for a whole family of free-as-in-beer-and-speech systems with no single identifiable owner on the other. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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