Le 09/01/2015 16:53, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
On 09/01/2015 10:14 AM, Jacques Le Roux wrote:
Le 09/01/2015 15:48, Ron Wheeler a écrit :
How many people have only heard of "Open for Business"?
hard to say ;)
When did the ofbiz.org and OFBiz name start to get used?
Around 2005 I'd say, you might refer to our history page (still not
created/completed ;)
Perhaps this might be a good headline for a page on the mission statement,
vision and history.
+1
I do not see any reason why this phrase can not be used in conjunction with the
trademark.
Many companies associate a slogan with their trademark.
IBM has used "Think" as a slogan. This did not stop Apple from using "Think different" in its marketing campaign. Apple can not use the IBM
graphic trademark.
SAP could easily use "Open for On-Line Business" even if we use "Open for
Business".
They might have more trouble putting the Apache OFBiz trademark on a comparison page on their web site if we felt that the comparison was
detrimental to the Apache OFBiz brand. We could not stop them from using just the text "OFBiz" in their marketing to refer to the product.
Anyway better to refer to http://www.apache.org/foundation/marks/
It is not sure from that list about what the actual trademarked graphic is. It just refers back to the OFBiz site where you see a different image -
script OFBiz with the trademark symbol and the text "The Apache Open for Business Project".
The image that includes both the trademark graphic and the text is perfectly
usable if we want to always have the text displayed with the trademark.
The image is for our convenience and does not affect the trademark. It makes sense to have the trademark by itself in a graphic and it makes it
easier to support multiple languages if that image is used in place of the one with text but there is no reason why the trademark could not be
accompanied by French or Italian text in an image on the site where the text was in French or Italian. These versions could be included in our
library of images if there was a desire to have a consistent trademark + text on every French or Italian page.
http://www.uspto.gov/trademarks/process/ is a link to the process of getting a
trademark approved.
If you do a search on Apache, you will find 215 trademarks associated with
"Apache" from Stainless steel to Oil and Gas to Skateboards
I did not find any associated with Apache projects (no OFBiz results) so I am
not sure where Apache is registering trademarks.
Actually I have no ideas (what in other counrries for instance, etc.) and I don't care much as long as there is no obvious abuses, notably with domain
names.
Note that I have already conducted several campaigns against these abuses.
AFAIK, the situation is almost clear now.
Sharan's purpose is different and I can't see any issues with it.
Jacques
Ron
Jacques
Ron
On 09/01/2015 9:26 AM, Jacopo Cappellato wrote:
On Jan 9, 2015, at 1:43 PM, Jacques Le Roux <[email protected]>
wrote:
I agree but I think we should explain on main page that OFBiz stands for "Open for
Business"
+1
Jacopo
