On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 12:02:31PM -0500, The Wanderer wrote: > Personally, I've been more confused by the swirl which is the current > Dreamwidth favicon; Yeah, but it doesn't add confusion to the marketplace. For instance, if you went out and bought something you thought was "Debian", but it was really Windows, because Windows was selling Windows 11.0 "Debian", with the red swirl, that *would* add confusion. People would think they were buying one thing, but actually got another. In this case, you're confused because two websites have similar logos. Not confusing enough for trademarks :) > it's in a more similar style, and a more similar > color, it simply happens to be swirling in the opposite direction. I've > mistaken it for the Debian-logo favicon, and vice versa, more than once > while trying to find a particular open tab. > > I don't think even that much similarity is enough to make it a trademark > violation, though. If nothing else, Debian and Dreamwidth are in very > different businesses. ^_^ Right :) -- .''`. Paul Tagliamonte <paultag@debian.org> | Proud Debian Developer : :' : 4096R / 8F04 9AD8 2C92 066C 7352 D28A 7B58 5B30 807C 2A87 `. `'` http://people.debian.org/~paultag `- http://people.debian.org/~paultag/conduct-statement.txt
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