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keane
2y ago
Anglo-Irish, born in County Kilkenny, Ireland.
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keane
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#FireMappers 3.1 is found here: https://www.arcgis.com/apps/instant/media/index.html?appid=a...
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keane
2y ago
You might enjoy the book Quintessence : The Quality of Having It by Betty Cornfeld and Owen Edwards. It was recommended by Jerry Seinfeld in his GQ 10 Things interview. https://archive.org/details/quintessence00bett
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keane
2y ago
This feels like the real story. Why are European headlights deemed unacceptable in the US?
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keane
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I echo your suggestion. Anyone can learn CPR online for free (no in-person session though) through the Disque Foundation (I'm not affiliated): https://disquefoundation.org/cpr-first-aid-aed-certification...
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keane
2y ago
Wow, had no idea. $150 / ships in February. I hate that I might grab it at that price. https://aeropress.com/products/aeropress-coffee-maker-premiu...
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keane
2y ago
The Lansing book is at https://bookshop.org/p/books/endurance/7205642 or https://tertulia.com/book/9780465062881 or https://www.abebooks.com/servlet/SearchResults?an
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A science-minded dentist, Ellie Phillips DDS goes in-depth describing some of these routines on her website [0]. On her blog [1] she includes links to the published studies she is drawing best practices from. [0] https://drellie.
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I hope at least one of the five cylinders finds its way to the Cylinder Audio Archive: https://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu
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On this issue, there's been a lot of discussion along the lines of "the trademark for an open-source project should work the way I prefer which is…" or "if I was in a decision making position I would simply…" or &qu
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>>>Your allowed nominative use and/or a software license does not give you *a license* to title your own services with their trademarks. >>Citation? >[academic paper by two lawyers in this space warning exactly that
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Passport Without a Visa: Open-Source Software Licensing and Trademarks
(jolts.world)
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Again, take a look at the wording from Red Hat for comparison: https://www.redhat.com/en/about/trademark-guidelines-and-pol... https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Trademark_guidelines#Tr...
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Debian–Mozilla Trademark Dispute
(en.wikipedia.org)
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Sure, you can use Disney, Microsoft, Volkswagen, and WordPress marks referentially. You cannot name products or services “Essential Disney”, “Enterprise Outlook”, “The Volkswagen Experiance”, or “Enterprise WordPress”. Your allowed nominati
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keane
2y ago
You absolutely do have a right to use and sell GPL software. But you might be conflating your rights to the software with your rights to specific trademarked terms. Consider the wording that Red Hat includes in their trademark policy: “Noth
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I know what you mean but if CNET Downloads advertised themselves as “The Most Trusted Source for Firefox” The Mozilla Foundation/Corporation would not allow this. A consumer new to the term WordPress might be given the impression that
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keane
2y ago
The trademark policy sounds like it falls somewhere between the Mozilla Foundation/Corporation model and the Red Hat/Fedora Project model. This is how open source in practice works.
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>Correction Aware of the fork, “creates” still applies. >It was just what you did. Contemporary projects at the time were Movable Type and Blogger, both proprietary. You didn’t have to contribute to open source: it was a philosophy.
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I’m imagining they weren’t calling themselves "The most trusted WordPress platform" and "The Most Trusted WordPress Tech Company" 13 years ago. 'Trusted' can be read with the meaning 'seen as trustworthy&#
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I’m not sure that data point constitutes evidence that anyone was opposed to commercial uses of the mark that avoided creating confusion around the mark and the project.
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I think you may be mistaken. My understanding is that while courts encourage trademark owners to pursue timely enforcement, the Lanham Act does not mention a time limit. Maybe their use of the marks has changed over the years? A court will
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Are you unfamiliar with other open-source project’s trademark protections? From Red Hat’s: “Nothing in these Guidelines is meant to limit your rights under the terms of a free and open source software license. Trademarks and copyright are d
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I don’t think it’s a wild change. Explicitly enumerated or not, one might assume that any open-source trademark owner does not allow use of their trademark that implies connection to, or authority over, the root project or that “creates con
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>Matt is saying that the WordPress Foundation (non profit) gives Automattic an exclusive commercial license to use the trademark. Automattic originally registered the trademark. They donated it to the Foundation and retained the excl
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Correct me if I have the timeline wrong but is my assessment correct that this played out roughly: 1) Matt creates WordPress under GPL, his friend coins the software’s name, Matt creates a company to offer commercial services of it, and reg
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>Where is the invention? “it would be nice to have the flexibility of Movable Type, the parsing of Textpattern, the hackability of b2, and the ease of setup of Blogger. Someday, right?” Synthesis is a type of invention: https:/
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Red Hat Trademark Guidelines (from Model Trademark Guidelines)
(redhat.com)
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Take a look at Red Hat's guidelines, based on the open-source Model Trademark Guidelines (CC-BY-4.0), for comparison. They advise they consider it acceptable for you to claim "[Your brand] software is built from modified source co
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Matt gave away the software he invented and founded a commercial venture to monetize his efforts despite this. Automattic originally registered the trademarks. Years later they donated them to the foundation, to make the marks available for
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