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Re: GUADEC report



On Tue, Jul 06, 2004 at 02:47:43PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> > I don't really think that trademarks fit with the spirit of free
> > software (despite it being possible to use them), and I'd raise
> > serious questions about why they're trying to use them at all. Raising
> > artificial barriers to forking is a *bad* thing.
> 
> I think there are reasonable ways to use trademarks with Free Software.
>   The appropriate usage of trademarks is to uniquely identify the
> software, not to raise a barrier to forking.

Have you seen what the mozilla project are trying to do with their
trademarks/branding?

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