Re:Ubuntu trademark nonsense
by wpietri on Saturday February 20, 2016 @12:43PM
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As my first lawyer explained to me, the important question isn't whether you are in the right and will eventually win the lawsuit. It's whether you can afford to go the distance.
Lawsuits are painful, expensive, and enormously stress-inducing. And if you can't afford to fight one, then you get all that plus a loss.
If you'd like developers to feel bold about this, one way to encourage that would be to put together a legal defense fund with deep enough pockets that developers aren't too worried. Because from the individual developer perspective, there's a big difference between the rest of the planet telling Canonical no and it just being them on their own.
Lawsuits are painful, expensive, and enormously stress-inducing. And if you can't afford to fight one, then you get all that plus a loss.
If you'd like developers to feel bold about this, one way to encourage that would be to put together a legal defense fund with deep enough pockets that developers aren't too worried. Because from the individual developer perspective, there's a big difference between the rest of the planet telling Canonical no and it just being them on their own.