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• cousin_it 17y ago
  Hello. I'm one of the persons who started this debacle (the Vladimir Slepnev from the signature at drupalsucks.com, the want_to_want who submitted the thing to reddit) and would like to add a note of friendliness to the discussion. Apologies if this comes late. Neither of us subscribes to the unacceptable personal attacks on you and your family. We're also pretty much fans of your software; Jacques was basing his business on it, and I'm seriously planning to do the same in the near future. For any new business, voluntarily honoring the policy terms isn't likely to be a big chore - it does seem to be very carefully written in this regard. The issue with the policy (as I see it) is twofold. First, the lack of a grandfather clause or anything to that effect will impact some existing legitimate sites adversely; this is Jacques's complaint. Second, and more importantly for me personally, trying to ensure that domain names mentioning Drupal in a negative manner don't get registered... sounds like a violation of some unspoken honor code of free software. No, Linux Mark doesn't do the same with the trademark it owns - see their FAQ. Neither do I with my open source stuff (which nobody uses, but still). While this issue likely won't drive me away from Drupal, I still feel that going down this path is a mistake. Sorry if I misunderstood your comments, or misrepresented the policy, in any way.