[Ubuntu-US-CA] Privacy, Trademark & Canonical

[Elizabeth Krumbach Joseph]

On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 9:53 AM, Josh Berkus <josh at agliodbs.com> wrote:
> On 11/07/2013 05:07 PM, Jono Bacon wrote:
>> I don't think is trademark law to silence a critic. I think it is
>> trademark law to protect a trademark.
>
> Seems more likely to be inadequate staff lawyer supervision to me.  If
> you leave the corporate lawyers to their own devices, they get into all
> kinds of trouble.

Yeah, that does seem to be what happened here. Canonical has released
an official blog post about the incident here:

http://blog.canonical.com/2013/11/08/trademarks-community-and-criticism/

And Mark's more personal apology on G+:

https://plus.google.com/116812394236590806058/posts/5jdibY5iR9b

"I guess a new guy made a bad call"

> On the other hand, I'd never have known about FixUbuntu if it wasn't for
> this, so there's that.

Same here. Hooray for the Streisand effect :)

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