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> irrelevant to my concerns This is very relevant to anyone that cares about open source. Companies being able to host any OSS without the threat of a tradema
by threeseed 2y ago
> irrelevant to my concerns
This is very relevant to anyone that cares about open source.
Companies being able to host any OSS without the threat of a trademark dispute is vital to the software industry.
- jameslk 2y agoKind of a similar situation as https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_trademark_dispute?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian%E2%80%93Mozilla_tradema... This didn’t kill Mozilla in the end or really affect the OSS community for Firefox or Debian
- ensignavenger 2y agoMozilla didn't cut Debian users off from the plugin ecosystem or any other Mozilla services.
- duskwuff 2y agoI don't think there was ever any expectation that the Firefox/Iceweasel trademark dispute would "kill" either organization. About the most serious it got, IIRC, was some heated discussions on the Debian bug tracker; there were never any legal threats involved, and the situation was ultimately resolved to everyone's satisfaction by the name change.