<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt"><span style="font-size: 13px;">Should we distinguish between the service and the usage of the name geocode?<br><br>It seems that the term geocode was first used in the fourtheen century and comes from old french. Google trademark?<br>See http://www.memidex.com/geocode</span><div><span><br></span></div><div><span></span></div><div> </div><div><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(0, 0, 191);font-weight:bold;">Pierre <br></span><br><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid rgb(16, 16, 255); margin-left: 5px; margin-top: 5px; padding-left: 5px;"> <div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 8pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">De :</span></b> Richard Fairhurst
<richard@systemed.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">À :</span></b> talk@openstreetmap.org <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Envoyé le :</span></b> Vendredi 1 février 2013 11h14<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Objet :</span></b> Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue<br> </font> </div> <br>Jean-Marc Liotier wrote:<br>> Why is Openstreetmap yielding to such blatant appropriation of <br>> the English language ?<br><br>Because we have bigger battles to fight. Let Google piss their money away on<br>defending the term "geocode". If OSM has $1m to spend, which it doesn't, I'd<br>rather it spent it on making the site easier to use and attracting more<br>mappers, rather than throwing lawyers at a trademark troll.<br><br>cheers<br>Richard<br><br><br><br><br><br>--<br>View this message in context: <a
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