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

nuboon2age nuboon2age at gmail.com
Fri Nov 8 18:09:09 UTC 2013


This is no way to promote Free (as in freedom) Software. Then again
Shuttleworth seems to have lost the narrative thread of Free Software. When
the project began he used to talk about promoting Free Software all the
time. Now? Not at all.

Ubuntu to you,

Drew
On Nov 8, 2013 4:00 AM, <ubuntu-us-ca-request at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:

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>    1.  Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (Grant Bowman)
>    2. Re:  Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (Troy Ready)
>    3. Re:  Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (Jono Bacon)
>    4. Re:  Privacy, Trademark & Canonical (C S)
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> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 16:50:48 -0800
> From: Grant Bowman <grantbow at partimus.org>
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> Subject: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical
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> wow!
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> 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
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> I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts?
>
> fyi,
> Grant
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> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:04:21 -0800
> From: Troy Ready <troy at troyready.com>
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> Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical
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> 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.
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> On Thu, Nov 7, 2013 at 4:50 PM, Grant Bowman <grantbow at partimus.org>
> wrote:
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> > 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
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> > I am not happy to read about this in this way. Thoughts?
> >
> > fyi,
> > Grant
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> Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 17:07:24 -0800
> From: Jono Bacon <jono at ubuntu.com>
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> I don't think is trademark law to silence a critic. I think it is
> trademark law to protect a trademark.
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> Was news to me though and I am checking into it.
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> 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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> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 20:08:32 -0800
> From: C S <cessanfrancisco at gmail.com>
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> 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.
>
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> 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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