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

C S cessanfrancisco at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 04:08:32 UTC 2013


I can see both sides of the coin on this one.  However, I feel that 
Ubuntu should be more transparent about their search/privacy policy and 
be upfront with users about having the option to disable the search 
function, if so desired.


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.
>
> Was news to me though and I am checking into it.
>
> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Troy Ready <troy at troyready.com> wrote:
>> Doesn't seem that bad to me. I could agree that it's against "the spirit" of
>> open source, but they've put a ton of time and money into promoting the
>> brand of ubuntu and I don't think it's unreasonable for them to be wary of
>> allowing very negative websites using that branding to go unanswered.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at partimus.org> wrote:
>>> wow!
>>>
>>> RT @lcafiero RT @marciahofmann: Oh, Canonical. It's silly to use trademark
>>> law to try to silence a critic! Especially a critic who works at @EFF.
>>> https://t.co/25ipxoHxPY
>>>
>>> I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts?
>>>
>>> fyi,
>>> Grant
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