Apple claims "Open Source" trademark

Tor Slettnes tor at slett.net
Wed Mar 17 20:24:54 UTC 1999


>>>>> "bruce" == bruce  <bruce at hams.com> writes:

    bruce> Given the amount of contention regarding the trademark, the
    bruce> easiest thing to do would be to place it in the public
    bruce> domain and let it die of lost meaning.


If you read the press release, 
  http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnU3LubWbu0zuvta4o&FQ=Linux&SymH

you will see towards the bottom:
  "Open Source is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc."


Like it or not, but now may be neccessary to come up with some of the
documents regarding the trademark, how it was handled initially etc.
Not only for Eric "Shoot Bill, get famous" Raymond, but in actual
legal confronation with Apple.

-tor



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