From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 8 20:14:29 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from winston.freebsd.org (adsl-64-173-15-98.dsl.sntc01.pacbell.net [64.173.15.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E6837B403 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:14:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) Received: from localhost (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by winston.freebsd.org (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f693DUt04652; Sun, 8 Jul 2001 20:13:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@osd.bsdi.com) To: jhs@jhs.muc.de Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, bod@FreeBSDFoundation.org Subject: Re: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral] In-Reply-To: <200107081353.f68Drec45358@jhs.muc.de> References: <200107081353.f68Drec45358@jhs.muc.de> X-Mailer: Mew version 1.94.1 on Emacs 20.7 / Mule 4.0 (HANANOEN) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20010708201330U.jkh@osd.bsdi.com> Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 20:13:30 -0700 From: Jordan Hubbard X-Dispatcher: imput version 20000228(IM140) Lines: 23 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG From: "Julian Stacey Jhs@jhs.muc.de" Subject: Re. The Foundation [was Re: FreeBSD Mall now BSDCentral] Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2001 15:53:40 +0200 > As I recall FreeBSD Inc (ie jkh & dg, a team of 2) once held the > trademark, then it moved to Walnut, then BSDi, then Wind River. Just to clarify this point - FreeBSD, Inc. has never held the FreeBSD trademark. It was initially filed for by Bob Bruce of Walnut Creek CDROM. This was initially alarming to some, but once it became clear that trademarks must be defended (that's non-optional) and trademark defense requires expensive lawyers, it was deemed a better solution to simply leave it with a company that actually had any money to spend. To say that the subsequent events with BSDi and WindRiver were unforseen would be an understatement, and now we've got to figure out the best way of dealing with a potentially sticky situation. I say "potentially" because I think it's still within our grasp to resolve the matter without undue fuss, but if anyone on either side is determined to make it sticky then things will be. - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message