I have been actively working with the Tor Project. When I saw the page on sourceforge I thought oh, Tor has a new site, and I am not your normal Tor user. I use it religiously.
Randolph, your page does confuse users with Tor's official site. --SiNA Nick Mathewson: > On Wed, Aug 15, 2012 at 5:35 PM, Randolph D. <rdohm...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> As you already can see on the website, it is added (maybe done >> later than you looked first): >> >> "TorBrowser Source code is open source and not affiliated with >> Tor, but simply use Tor. "Tor" and the "Onion Logo" are >> registered trademarks of the Tor Project, Inc. Content on this >> site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 >> License, unless otherwise noted." >> >> this should remove any confusion. > > Really? I kind of doubt it. The site's look and feel is just like > ours; the disclaimer is in tiny letters at the bottom of the page, > and you are giving your program the same name to a program we > release. > > You are either trying to confuse your users or not. > > If you are trying to confuse users, PLEASE STOP. It is a wrong > thing to do. > > If you are not trying to confuse users, please don't pretend that > sticking a tiny disclaimer at the bottom of the page is actually > going to unconfuse people. Please don't pretend that people are > going to think that a project called "TorBrowser" is different from > the Tor project called "TorBrowser". Please don't pretend that > giving your site the same look and feel as ours is not going to > confuse people. You aren't silly enough to believe any of those > things, and neither are we. > -- “If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I’d spend the first six of them sharpening my axe.” -Abraham Lincoln _______________________________________________ tor-talk mailing list tor-talk@lists.torproject.org https://lists.torproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tor-talk
