On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 12:11:05PM -0500, Lynn Winebarger wrote: > > On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > You are not the only one who has this impression. There has been frequent > > critique of the handling of the trademark issue. I never heard anything > > about the patent office abandoning the trademarking of Open Source. > > I was surprised by that as well. I'd like to say I was, but I kinda saw it coming. Bruce was holding the paperwork and it seems he wanted to see it die... The trademark issue isn't *dead* per se, but SPI needs to get the bylaws finished so that it has memebers to actually work on the tradmark thing. > But as long as we are talking about nothing getting done, I thought I'd > mention there has been a minor update on the SPI home page. Congrats to > Nils and Darren on the respective statuses - or should I say "Thanks for > volunteering for the dirty work." ;-) Thank you :) > > I sure will try to help as much as I can and I think SPI has a very > > important role to play but it seems that we are stuck in > > the mud right now and things fly by us. > > > I hope that with the non-profit status now official, and the by-laws > almost revised, SPI will start on to more tangible items. That's the plan I understand.. get the by-laws so we can get the actual members. -- Please cc all mailing list replies to me, also. ========================================================================= * http://benham.net/index.html <gecko@benham.net> <>< * * -------------------- * -----------------------------------------------* * Debian Developer, Debian Project Secretary, Debian Webmaster * * <gecko@debian.org> <secretary@debian.org> <lintian-maint@debian.org> * * <webmaster@debian.org> <gecko@fortunet.com> <webmaster@spi-inc.org> * =========================================================================
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