On Fri, Feb 26, 1999 at 09:29:38PM -0500, Ben Pfaff wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Brian Ristuccia writes: > > http://www.zdnet.com/pcweek/stories/news/0,4153,1014005,00.html > > > If SPI still owns this mark, someone needs to send Sun Microsystems a > > cease-and-desist before we lose it. > > I see no evidence of infringement of the Open Source mark at that URL. > > Brian is probably referring to this quote from Sun VP Jim Mitchell: > > "Those companies were playing the Community Source game already," > Mitchell said. "When you license Jini and return changes, you're > not giving them to Sun, you're giving them to the Jini > community. Sun has no special rights to them that I'm aware of. The > real value of open source is that innovation springs up all > around. Programmers have a very natural tendency to make things > better for the whole community, and we want to tap into that." > > However, I see that as a comparison to open source, not a claim that > their Community Source license is an open source license. >
This to me sounds like someone going on and on about the features and benefits of their alternate tone-based telephone dialing system looking for adoptees and investors, and then throwing in a quote like "...the real value of the TouchTone dialing system is that it has revolutionized the way Americans use the telephone." I think sort of thing would prompt at least a "this trademark is ours" angry-gram from the owner of the TouchTone mark. IANAL, but I don't see how the Open Source mark and it's use by folks at Sun Microsystems would be any different in this sort of instance. -- Brian Ristuccia [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
