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

[ce-test, qualified testing bv - Gert Gremmen]

If there were no BoD, but OSM were still a true crowd driven

organization, there would not have been a place to address this
notice....

 

Put up a tree and you are sure to catch wind !

 

Geert

 

Van: Jeff Meyer [mailto:jeff at gwhat.org] 
Verzonden: vrijdag 1 februari 2013 19:07
Aan: Manfred A. Reiter
CC: talk at openstreetmap.org
Onderwerp: Re: [OSM-talk] Recent edits in the wiki / Trademark issue

 

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:

	> @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.

 

+1

 

	This would be much better publicity than we can get by
connecting our social
	community with main stream social media.

 

+1 

 

 

 

 


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