[Swlug] Fix Ubuntu

[Matt North]

And this is why I keep telling everyone we should just give up and use
AmigaOS instead. ;)


On 11 November 2013 10:00, Daniel Morris <danielm at iee.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 08, 2013 at 11:21:24PM +0000, Matt Willsher wrote:
> > Perhaps more alarming is
> >
> http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canonical-abused-trademark-law-to-target-a-site-critical-of-ubuntu-privacy/
> >
>
> Alarming is right. That's not an abuse of trademark law, that's how
> trademark law works. If Canonical didn't defend their rights then that
> failure to defend could be used as evidence against Canonical and
> they could/would lose the trademark.
>
> In the ARS Technica example of omgubuntu, I would expect that the owners
> of that site did get Canonical's approval to use their mark within a
> domain name registration; and that grant is entirely up to the rights
> holder. Yes to friend, no to foe (or faux)? That's the rights holder's
> perogative.
>
> FAOD I neither run Ubuntu nor have an axe to grind on choice of distro
> (though it would be nice if the package manager agreed in the LSB was
> actually used, rather than than corrupting the package database in the
> case of Ubuntu rolling over RPM).
>
> I've also read that Dash has gross privacy concerns, and functionally
> is not very good. The Linux Action Show podcast had some pretty sharp
> criticism of it when they did an Ubuntu 13.10 review recently.
>
>  Daniel
>
>
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