Helo all: El Jueves, 31 de Agosto de 2006 01:47, Wookey escribió: > On 06-08-30 23:28 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > Someone else has noticed the punnable possibilities of debian and > > embedded. Some taiwanese outfit is calling itself Embedian and putting > > a 'debian-based' distro on its hardware. > > > > Don't suppose it has anything to do with emdebian though. > > > > http://www.embedian.com/ > > > > A mail to see if they want to co-operate might be in order. > IMHO, I think they should be acknowledge of the existence, position and history of the Emdebian project as a subproject of Debian. After this, they should answer and according to this, some more actions could be taken. > In fact, thinking about it, and after some discussion on #debian-uk, > we probably need to write to them pointing out that because they have > a confusingly similar name and are opertaing in the same area, they > may be guilty of trademark infringement. > Exactly this. > If we don't do this then they may be able to give us a hard time in a > few years, claiming we are infringing their trademark. And as we > preceed them by 5-6 years it's a good idea to establish that priority. > [...] > Perhaps we should also consider registering the trademark. That feels > a bit 'corporate', but maybe it is a good idea in order to be able to > encourage impostors to behave. > That could also be a posibility, but I would wait for the answer of that firm. > Wookey > -- > Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679 > work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/ play: http://wookware.org/ -- Raúl Sánchez Siles Barracuda Systems S.L. C/ Luxemburgo, 4 - Local Pozuelo de Alarcón 28224 Madrid Tlf.: +34 91 351 11 20 Fax: +34 91 352 54 44
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