On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 08:54:47 +0200 Arnoud Engelfriet wrote:
> Francesco Poli wrote:
[...]
> > Anyway, I have a question: does the latter ("may not [...] harm the
> > reputation of the trademark holder") prevent me from stating
> >
> > "Debian GNU/Linux sucks badly"
>
> Good point. I would say no, as long as it is clear that "use"
> in the above sentence refers to a use covered by trademark.
[...]
> perhaps it's
> best to just drop that part.
How would the revised wording look like?
>
> > possibly with the swirl (== Open Use Logo) associated to the
> > sentence?
>
> As an aside, in my experience courts are more likely to forbid use
> of graphical marks than word marks in cases like this. You can't
> criticize a company without mentioning its name, but do you really
> need to show its logo?
Maybe, for instance if I want to criticize the logo, as well...
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