Comments on: Trademark vs Copyright http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104 glandium.org Sun, 05 Sep 2010 12:27:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: KDS http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8184 KDS Wed, 15 Nov 2006 03:16:58 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8184 Mike, can you plot the number of responses for each post on this blog? I think there will be large spikes for those related to firefox branding stuff ;) Mike, can you plot the number of responses for each post on this blog? I think there will be large spikes for those related to firefox branding stuff ;)

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8183 Chris Cunningham Tue, 14 Nov 2006 11:06:41 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8183 <blockquote>Would the disappearance of most Universe packages help?</blockquote> As a number of ex-DDs (and basically all potential NMs these days) have figured out, there's nothing stopping people from packaging software for Universe themselves, directly, instead of trying to work with an intermediary upstream which spends 60% of its time publicly annoying people. I'm amazed nobody on planet debian has yet publicly decried some random build / legal / community issue relating to Sun's code drop. After the JRE was officially packaged it was all of ten minutes before people were fighting tooth and nail to reject it. - Chris

Would the disappearance of most Universe packages help?

As a number of ex-DDs (and basically all potential NMs these days) have figured out, there’s nothing stopping people from packaging software for Universe themselves, directly, instead of trying to work with an intermediary upstream which spends 60% of its time publicly annoying people.

I’m amazed nobody on planet debian has yet publicly decried some random build / legal / community issue relating to Sun’s code drop. After the JRE was officially packaged it was all of ten minutes before people were fighting tooth and nail to reject it.

– Chris

]]> By: aperry http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8182 aperry Tue, 14 Nov 2006 08:44:05 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8182 Chris Cunningham: could you share your wisdom and explain how the hell the death of Debian that you so realistically predict would benefit Ubuntu ? Would the disappearance of most Universe packages help ? Would it help if less people were working on Main packages that get included in Ubuntu every so often ? If this is really the case, Ubuntu may just stop using Debian packages. It's a pity there are so many Ubuntu users like you, I believe developers are a lot wiser. Chris Cunningham: could you share your wisdom and explain how the hell the death of Debian that you so realistically predict would benefit Ubuntu ? Would the disappearance of most Universe packages help ? Would it help if less people were working on Main packages that get included in Ubuntu every so often ? If this is really the case, Ubuntu may just stop using Debian packages. It’s a pity there are so many Ubuntu users like you, I believe developers are a lot wiser.

]]> By: Np237 http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8181 Np237 Tue, 14 Nov 2006 07:26:54 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8181 Chris, those who don't care of software being free are, well, free to use a non-free operating system, such as Ubuntu or Microsoft Windows. Chris, those who don’t care of software being free are, well, free to use a non-free operating system, such as Ubuntu or Microsoft Windows.

]]> By: crf http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8180 crf Tue, 14 Nov 2006 03:47:27 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8180 I doubt you could give the "Duke" logo away, so what does it matter what licence it's under. And wtf is it (a gnome? an extracted molar? a marshmallow?) Debian Swirly, Firefox, Coffee Cup: those are obviously (to me) good logos, and worth protecting. Duke: it barely rates a mention on wikipedia, with no explanation of what it is. Compare to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Firefox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clippy I read something about Duke here from '99 --> http://java.sun.com/features/1999/05/duke.html Apparently, he presaged Clippy. WOW! And he had great fun protecting his trademark! Riot! I doubt you could give the “Duke” logo away, so what does it matter what licence it’s under. And wtf is it (a gnome? an extracted molar? a marshmallow?)
Debian Swirly, Firefox, Coffee Cup: those are obviously (to me) good logos, and worth protecting.
Duke: it barely rates a mention on wikipedia, with no explanation of what it is. Compare to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Mozilla_Firefox
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clippy

I read something about Duke here from ’99 –> http://java.sun.com/features/1999/05/duke.html
Apparently, he presaged Clippy. WOW! And he had great fun protecting his trademark! Riot!

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8178 Chris Cunningham Tue, 14 Nov 2006 00:50:09 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8178 Rubbish. It's literally exactly the same situation. The mascot matters not one jot. One cannot call one's Java runtime a "java runtime" without Sun's approval. The mascot matters not. But hell, keep it up. Debian is about a year from utter obsolescence at this point thanks to obnoxious DDs, so anything that hastens this will benefit those who have settled on Ubuntu already (such as, y'know, Sun). - Chris Rubbish. It’s literally exactly the same situation. The mascot matters not one jot. One cannot call one’s Java runtime a “java runtime” without Sun’s approval. The mascot matters not.

But hell, keep it up. Debian is about a year from utter obsolescence at this point thanks to obnoxious DDs, so anything that hastens this will benefit those who have settled on Ubuntu already (such as, y’know, Sun).

– Chris

]]> By: David Weinehall http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8177 David Weinehall Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:09:12 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8177 Not only that, but Duke is way cooler than the planet-humper... Not only that, but Duke is way cooler than the planet-humper…

]]> By: tuukka http://glandium.org/blog/?p=104&cpage=1#comment-8176 tuukka Mon, 13 Nov 2006 22:36:31 +0000 http://web.glandium.org/blog/?p=104#comment-8176 I'm sure Mozilla can take a lesson from the open-sourcing of the Java Coffee Cup Logo, yeah. Oh. I’m sure Mozilla can take a lesson from the open-sourcing of the Java Coffee Cup Logo, yeah.

Oh.

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