From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 9 20:38:48 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F171106566B for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:38:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: from smtp.des.no (smtp.des.no [194.63.250.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3275E8FC0A for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ds4.des.no (des.no [84.49.246.2]) by smtp.des.no (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED07F1FFC51; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 20:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ds4.des.no (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BAC97844A6; Tue, 9 Feb 2010 21:38:46 +0100 (CET) From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= To: "Julian H. Stacey" References: <201002092030.o19KUH6Q029299@fire.js.berklix.net> Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:38:46 +0100 In-Reply-To: <201002092030.o19KUH6Q029299@fire.js.berklix.net> (Julian H. Stacey's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:30:17 +0100") Message-ID: <863a1axhyh.fsf@ds4.des.no> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.95 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, mail25@bzerk.org Subject: Re: our little daemon abused as symbol of the evil X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:38:48 -0000 "Julian H. Stacey" writes: > "Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav" 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