On 04/27/2010 12:30 AM, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 16:48 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > >> As a propopent of "Free SW", my interest is to fight those who are >> applying trademarks to undermine the principles of "free SW". > > This is not what Mozilla is doing. They are applying trademarks to > protect the names Mozilla, Firefox and Thunderbird. Consider what could > happen if they didn't; any Tom, Dick or Harry could 'patch' their > advert, badly-conceived 'feature' or, hell, piece of malware into > Firefox and call it Firefox, and Mozilla couldn't say boo to them for > it. Yes, this is true of many pieces of software that Fedora also ships, Correct. > but there's no real motive to do it to most of those; they don't have > Mozilla's profile. Untrue, c.f. Gnome, KDE, QT, GCC, GNU and many more. > If Mozilla's intent was in fact to undermine the principles of free SW, > they would make it as hard as possible to debrand Firefox; they do > rather the opposite. I disagree. Their trademark policy is already doing it. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
