[OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

[Jeff Meyer]

Team -

The OSMF BoD is doing the job for which its members were elected. Thank
goodness.

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.

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.

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.

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...

- Jeff


On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Manfred A. Reiter <ma.reiter at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 01/02/13 17:49, Richard Weait wrote:
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>> > @andres / @cartinus, such a trade mark has been issued by USPTO
>> >
>> > http://weait.com/content/trade-mark
>> >
>> > Anyone who cares to pick up this fight with their money, is likely to be
>> > able to do so very simply.
>>
>> Oh, come on:
>>
>> "Get up, stand up..." and "I shot the sheriff" come to my mind.
>>
>> I always hear money. Is that really all that counts.
>>
>> Let us fight and win and not behave like the octopuses want us to.
>>
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> +1
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>> This would be much better publicity than we can get by connecting our
>> social
>> community with main stream social media.
>
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> +1
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