Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-project (235 mails)

[Vincent Untz <vuntz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le mercredi 22 septembre 2010, à 18:02 +0200, Juergen Weigert a écrit :
> On Sep 21, 10 21:33:32 +0200, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Every time I read "openSUSE TM" (on t-shirts, and everywhere where we
> > use the logo), I start crying. 
>
> Me too, but different reasons.
> TM is not only not required, it is outdated since 2007.
> It is a registered trademark by now and thus should be denoted with
> an R in a circle. Still, a (TM) is better than nothing.

Ah, thanks, I was wondering about this too :-)

[...]

> The use of an (R) is optional from a legal perspective, no law forces us to
> do so. But, I'd advocate to keep them, if you ask me. One simple reason:
>  If 'openSUSE' would ever become a general catch phrase, e.g. like in 
>  "hey, I just built my own openSUSE appliance, using almost only fedora 
> packages"
>  then the name would no longer be specific to the openSUSE 11.x releases,
>  that *we* do. This would end our trademark protection then.

But we can still protect the trademark without the (R), can't we? It's
just a matter of contacting the people who abuse it -- in the very same
way we'd do if it had the (R).

Cheers,

Vincent

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