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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>If there were no BoD, but OSM were still a true crowd driven<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>organization, there would not have been a place to address this
notice….<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>Put up a tree and you are sure to catch wind !<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Geert<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><b><span lang=NL
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>Van:</span></b><span
lang=NL style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Jeff Meyer
[mailto:jeff@gwhat.org] <br>
<b>Verzonden:</b> vrijdag 1 februari 2013 19:07<br>
<b>Aan:</b> Manfred A. Reiter<br>
<b>CC:</b> talk@openstreetmap.org<br>
<b>Onderwerp:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Team - <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>The OSMF BoD is doing the job for
which its members were elected. Thank goodness.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>There's a trademark. We've been
served notice (I believe). The board has made a decision. The chairman of the
board (probably a (tm) term...) has communicated this decision.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Fine, disagree, but please
disagree with a plan for how to fund your alternate plan, describing in detail
the source of new funds or what other OSMF activities should be de-funded to
support this plan.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Yes, it sounds silly to trademark
geocode, yes, it's a US-only thing, but these issues are solved in courts, with
real money for real lawyers, not well-reasoned arguments on email threads
supported by personal moral and ethical constructs and not law.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Personally, I'm glad the OSMF BoD
is taking care of this so I don't have to. As Mr. W said, I'd rather be
mapping...<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>- Jeff<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM,
Manfred A. Reiter <<a href="mailto:ma.reiter@gmail.com" target="_blank">ma.reiter@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>On 01/02/13 17:49, Richard Weait
wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt'>> @andres / @cartinus, such a trade mark has been
issued by USPTO<br>
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> <a href="http://weait.com/content/trade-mark" target="_blank">http://weait.com/content/trade-mark</a><br>
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> Anyone who cares to pick up this fight with their money, is likely to be<br>
> able to do so very simply.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>Oh, come on:<br>
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"Get up, stand up..." and "I shot the sheriff" come to my
mind.<br>
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I always hear money. Is that really all that counts.<br>
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Let us fight and win and not behave like the octopuses want us to.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>+1<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>This would be much better
publicity than we can get by connecting our social<br>
community with main stream social media.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'>-- <br>
<span style='font-size:7.5pt'>Jeff Meyer<br>
Global World History Atlas<br>
<a href="http://www.gwhat.org" target="_blank">www.gwhat.org</a><br>
<a href="mailto:jeff@gwhat.org" target="_blank">jeff@gwhat.org</a><br>
206-676-2347</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:36.0pt'><span style='font-size:7.5pt'><a
href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer" target="_blank"><span
style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm;text-decoration:none'><img
border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1025" src="cid:~WRD000.jpg"
alt="Afbeelding verwijderd door afzender."></span></a> </span><span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>osm: <a
href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Historical_OSM" target="_blank">Historical
OSM</a> / <a href="http://www.openstreetmap.org/user/jeffmeyer"
target="_blank">my OSM user page</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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padding:0cm'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1026"
src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Afbeelding verwijderd door afzender."></span> <span
style='font-size:7.5pt'>t: <a href="https://twitter.com/GWHAThistory"
target="_blank">@GWHAThistory</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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padding:0cm'><img border=0 width=100 height=100 id="_x0000_i1027"
src="cid:~WRD000.jpg" alt="Afbeelding verwijderd door afzender."></span> <span
style='font-size:7.5pt'>f: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/GWHAThistory"
target="_blank">GWHAThistory</a></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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