EFF Says Mark Shuttleworth Is Wrong About Trademark 103
sfcrazy writes "Last week Canonical sent a cease and desist letter to EFF staffer Micah F Lee asking him to remove the word Ubuntu from the URL as well as the Ubuntu logo from the site. Lee responded through an attorney who said that Canonical's 'request were not supported by trademark laws and interferes with protected speech.' Shuttleworth apologized, though it was cheeky, and while he dubbed the Mir opponents as non-technical (hello KDE, systemD, Wayland, Intel) he also went on to explain why they needed to protect their trademark. Now there is an official response from EFF. In the blog post EFF has explained that Shuttleworth is far from reality and was totally wrong about trademark."
Ubuntu TM (Score:4, Funny)
sfcrazy writes "Last week Canonical sent a cease and desist letter to EFF staffer Micah F Lee asking him to remove the word Ubuntu from the URL as well as the Ubuntu logo from the site.
Dear sfcrazy: You have used the word Ubuntu in your article. Please be advised that there is a chance now that some crazy folken at Canonical may approach you with a C&D letter, over the use of their 'holy' name; prithee take care.
Re:Error in summary (Score:2, Funny)
Isn't that a bit like Captain Koloth saying, "I didn't mean to say that the Enterprise should be carrying garbage--I meant to say she should be hauled away AS garbage!"?
Re:ubuntu is trash, linux is trash, fuck all ya'll (Score:4, Funny)
you know it is possible to use an ipad and linux on another system without exploding, right?
even windows too...
Trying it right now, as it happens. Here we g-aarghh!