Re: firefox -> iceweasel package is probably not legal
On Wednesday 06 December 2006 18:47, Ben Finney wrote:
> Sean Kellogg <skellogg@u.washington.edu> writes:
> > On Wednesday 06 December 2006 14:30, Michael Poole wrote:
> > > Apparently law instead requires us to assume users are in fact
> > > morons in a hurry. What a sad state of affairs.
> >
> > Yes, that's exactly what the law requires.
>
> IANAL. I will merely draw to your attention that, as far as I can
> tell, the consistent usage of the phrase "a moron in a hurry" in
> trademark history has been to describe the level of confusion which
> trademarks should *not* protect.
Fair enough. But there is a great deal of room between "Debian FTP Master"
and "Moron in a Hurry" that is being glossed over here. In my own Linux
Users Group there has been a lot of confusion over what is, and is not,
Iceweasel and the why behind the change. I consider none of them to be
morons or in much of a hurry.
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