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Re: Hello??



Craig Sanders writes:
 > On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 12:03:48AM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
 > > Craig Sanders writes:
 > >  > On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 11:49:09PM -0400, Russell Nelson wrote:
 > >  > >  > if anyone "hijacked" anything, it was bruce and esr who ran off
 > >  > >  > with the domain that bruce registered on behalf of debian & spi, as
 > >  > >  > debian project leader.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > Excuse me, but YOU are rewriting history.  Check the domain
 > >  > > registration.  It's owned by SPI.
 > >  > 
 > >  > not at all.
 > > 
 > > "At all".  
 > 
 > "not at all" was a response to "but YOU are rewriting history."

 > if you can understand it, then all will be clear.

Okay, I'm confused.  Are you saying that Debian owns opensource.org?
But then why is SPI's name on the registration for opensource.org?

I understand that the impetus for creating SPI was to own the property
for the debian project.  And that was seen to be a good idea, and SPI
decided to own property for other projects.  One of those projects is
opensource.org, a project which developed into the Open Source
Initiative.  A "trademark", Open Source, was thought to have been
created, and a registration was entered by SPI into the USPTO for a
trademark on Open Source.  SPI also registered and owns
opensource.org.

These are all facts which I believe to be true.  Do you dispute any of 
them?

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