Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 22:17:57 +0200 From: "Stacy Olivas" <olivas@digiflux.org> To: "'Dag-Erling Smorgrav'" <des@ofug.org>, "'John Baldwin'" <jhb@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Mercenary coding (Re: Is there a header conflict?) Message-ID: <002401c317fa$6a41dcf0$0502000a@sentinel> In-Reply-To: <xzpist2rdkm.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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> John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: > > No, they were initialliy acquired by WRS along with the > other software > > assets of BSDi. Only the hardware portion of BSDi was > split off at the > > acquisition. Later the FreeBSD side of BSDi at WRS was > laid off and the > > FreeBSD CDROM production and web store were bought by the > original owner > > of Walnut Creek CDROM. Hence the confusion. My best guess > is that WRS > > still holds the FreeBSD trademark. > > According to the USPTO's online search engine, it is still registered > to WC, which is "suspended" - but I imagine that WRS hold all the > shares. > > DES > -- Hmm, anybody up to see if the FreeBSD Foundation can legally acquire the FreeBSD trademark and all it represents from WRS? And if so, at what price? Anybody from the Foundation reading this? -Stacy
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