Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does...
by DanRabbit on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:07PM
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Yup, I also made a comment saying that we are absolutely not threatening legal action, nobody here is a lawyer, and it's only a request. So he deleted it
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Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does...
by ddtaylor on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:14PM
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You mean the comment where you claim that you were being harassed?
Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does...
by DanRabbit on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:19PM
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Yes, the repo owner is trying to make it seem like elementary is threatening legal action, which again we aren't, and after not responding to any private communication, refusing to take down a link to a private residence, and continuing to draw attention on social media they were banned from our online communities for harassment and doxxing which goes against our code of conduct.
Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does...
by ddtaylor on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:23PM
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Didn't he link to a public document part of an attempted trademark filing?
Re:Linux distro creator tries to enforce a trademark he does...
by threatofrain on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:15PM
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But why is that interesting? Neither of them are lawyers, and you don't need the federal government to grant a trademark to have one.
If someone wishes to address the issue on strictly legal grounds, such as by contending there is no trademark protection, then there is no choice but to bring in lawyers... All further discussion after that is just nonsense, such as the discussion of how Ubuntu uses their trademark — there's no point in trying to develop your own internal legal theory by reasoning with Ubuntu as a proxy.