Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-31 Thread John W. Foster
On Wed, 2012-05-30 at 20:01 -0700, William Stein wrote: > On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > > On 2012-05-28, Alex Ghitza wrote: > >>> On Sun, 27 May 2012 at 10:48AM -0700, William Stein wrote: > If you think this abuse of sagetrac.org sucks, please consider filing >

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-31 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:34 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/30/12 10:01 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >> So... is anybody opposed to University of Washington become the >> (temporary) register of the Sage trademark? > > > I was going to ask how you were going to determine if the Sage development > co

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-31 Thread William Stein
On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 7:11 AM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/31/12 6:17 AM, Harald Schilly wrote: >> >> Also, i don't see any long term problems, because [like libre vs. open >> office has shown] it is always possible to fork and rename everything >> from "Sage" to -- say -- "Sagemath" and that's it

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-31 Thread Harald Schilly
On Thursday, May 31, 2012 5:01:01 AM UTC+2, William wrote: > > UW is interested, but first the trademark on "Sage" has to get sorted > out and officially registered. ... > wow, that's very good news and I like that they are willing to stand behind it. +1 from me for that. Also, i don't see any

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-31 Thread Volker Braun
+1 for having UW do the paperwork ;-) On Thursday, May 31, 2012 4:18:12 AM UTC+1, William wrote: > > As long as that community is OK > with me working with UW to get the trademark officially registered, I > can go forward. -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-31 Thread Justin C. Walker
On May 30, 2012, at 20:18 , William Stein wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, rjf wrote: >> You can do your own free trademark search, and you can also try to get a >> trademark for $159. >> There appear to be something like 50 uses of SAGE as a trademark, at least >> some of them >> for s

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-30 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:14 PM, rjf wrote: > You can do your own free trademark search, and you can also try to get a > trademark for $159. > There appear to be something like 50 uses of SAGE as a trademark, at least > some of them > for software,  software and education, software and engineering

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-30 Thread William Stein
On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 8:09 PM, Jason Grout wrote: > On 5/30/12 10:01 PM, William Stein wrote: >> >>  They tell me that later on they will be willing to >> sell the trademark to me in exchange for the cost they had to pay to >> register it. > > > Can you get that in writing? I'm sure I can. The

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-30 Thread rjf
You can do your own free trademark search, and you can also try to get a trademark for $159. There appear to be something like 50 uses of SAGE as a trademark, at least some of them for software, software and education, software and engineering. I am not a lawyer. On Wednesday, May 30, 2012 8

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-30 Thread William Stein
On Sun, May 27, 2012 at 11:10 PM, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > On 2012-05-28, Alex Ghitza wrote: >>> On Sun, 27 May 2012 at 10:48AM -0700, William Stein wrote: If you think this abuse of sagetrac.org sucks, please consider filing a claim by clicking on "File a claim" at the above URL.  Hopef

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-28 Thread Maarten Derickx
By the way. Your name might also be on that website. See http://www.sagetrac.org/sage_trac . -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http

Re: [sage-devel] Re: please complain

2012-05-28 Thread David Kirkby
On 28 May 2012 07:10, Dima Pasechnik wrote: > Perhaps our BDFL can try unleasing UW lawyers on them... I would have thought they would not be too interested. The cost to try to fight one project in one department where the domain was allowed to elapse is unlikely to be seen as high priority. Th