On 10/03/14 04:15 PM, Always Learning wrote: > > On Mon, 2014-03-10 at 14:28 +0000, David G.Miller wrote: > >> So, while CentAP or some of the other suggestions may not infringe on >> CentOS, you could still get a C&D from a Red Hat lawyer telling you not to >> use CentAP. Unless you can afford a really good trademark lawyer to fight >> the C&D, you'll have to discontinue use of CentAP (or whatever). > > USA patent law has differences from EU patent law. > > I'm not a lawyer either. Once defence is whether RH effectively "stole" > the Centos brand name or colluded to pay money to persons whose property > it wasn't to transfer the brand name from general community ownership, > or offer no opposition to RH registering a brand name which was the de > facto property of a large international community. > > If RH agreement eventually went "bad" could the Centos community get > their brand name back from RH ? Think not. These types of posts offer nothing productive. No one stole anything. The community that created the brand entered into a deal with a company willingly. If you want to debate the wisdom of that, fine. Please leave the melodrama out of it though. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?