There will be no license fees for the use of “hackathon” in Germany

Re:There will be no license fees for the use of “hackathon” ... by Aardwolf on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @10:11AM (#5668213)

"The attempt to take revenue for non-commercial purposes on a licensing model failed."

Irrespective of my opinion on trademarking words: How can they say after just a few days that a revenue model failed? It seems a bit fast.

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Re:There will be no license fees for the use of “hackathon” ... by simcop2387 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @10:39AM (#5668347)

I think it's likely they realized they were wrong about how many people would back off and settle.

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Re:There will be no license fees for the use of “hackathon” ... by th0br0 on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:25AM (#5668568)

Much rather, given that they intend to start up this "Tech_Hub" thing, they realized, that enforcing licensing claims (and the negative PR that generates) would give them a bad public perception... esp. in the dev world which they seem to be targeting with said "Tech_Hub"

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Re:There will be no license fees for the use of “hackathon” ... by Aardwolf on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @07:37PM (#5671607)

So, uh, they're trying to target the dev world while not actually having the mindset of the dev world?

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Re:There will be no license fees for the use of “hackathon” ... by iSnow on Tuesday May 07, 2013 @11:42AM (#5668673)

It's a nice way to say "we tried to trademark-troll by asking small-scale hackathlon organizers for 2500 EUR and got our ass whipped by the community".

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