[Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks

[Terry Ford]

I'm surprised they don't have the term "Sim" trademarked as well.
What about all the existing "Grid" names and domains out there??
Everyone is going to have to stop using these??

Examples....
Centralgrid, osgrid, deepgrid, apex-grid, openlifegrid, francogrid and more!

This is going to be bad.... damn... and I just registered one of my own.

unknown person wrote:
> In light of this and discussions based off this, I can't help but 
> think of the future issues regarding this type of problem.
> In some form, the OpenSim community needs to have some trademarks of 
> their own, if not for branding purposes alone,
> but for protection against greedy sabotaging Corporate interests that 
> might see us as a viable threat to their commercail interests.
>
> Not to mention this scenario:
>
> Someone from the OpenSim community gets a bug up their rear and 
> branches off, creates a product based off OpenSim, then doesn't want 
> to see any competition.
> So what this asshat could do, is sabotage the OpenSim project and take 
> out their own trademarks/etc... against what we use for coined 
> phrases/terms/etc...
>
> If we don't create protections in this manner, we could forsee 
> constant threat by actions like this as time goes on..
>
> Just a thought,
>
> CharlieO
>
>     ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>     From: ezekiel at daelindor.com
>     To: opensim-dev at lists.berlios.de
>     Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 14:55:36 +0100
>     Subject: [Opensim-dev] LindenLab tightens policy on Trademarks
>
>     Dear all,
>      
>     please consider the recent policy change of Linden Lab regarding
>     their trademarks:
>     http://blog.secondlife.com/2008/03/24/introducing-the-second-life-brand-center/
>      
>     The texts on the OS wiki will need to be reviewed within the
>     announced 90-day period to ensure compliance with
>     the guidelines set by Linden Lab regarding the use of 'Second
>     Life' and 'SL'.
>     Furthermore, I would like to suggest that from now on OS
>     documentation (and code) should use any of
>     these trademarks only where it is absolutely necessary.
>      
>     Cheers, Ezekiel
>
>
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