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Koha creators asking for help in trademark disputeKoha creators asking for help in trademark disputePosted Nov 23, 2011 11:17 UTC (Wed) by dgm (subscriber, #49227)Parent article: Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute
I guess an economical decision is needed here. If Koha has the resources, and think the best way to expend those resources is fighting for their name instead of changing it for something else, "Hoka" for example, then go ahead and fight.
My expectation is that they will come to the conclusion that what they could get out of the fight is not really worth it.
We do need to stop feeding the lawyers at some point. The same observation than bigger armies do not lead to more peace applies to them also.
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Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute Posted Nov 23, 2011 21:55 UTC (Wed) by PaulWay (✭ supporter ✭, #45600) [Link]
...instead of changing it for something else, "Hoka" for example...
Because words in another language don't have to mean anything, right?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koha_%28custom%29
If you ran a program called Farb and someone was trying to trademark it, would you be happy if someone else suggested that you could just call your project Barf?
Personally I'm absolutely outraged - but not surprised - that Liblime is doing this. As the previous excellent LWN article explains, the Koha codebase has a lot of strange and sometimes ugly history behind it. I'm not surprised that an American company now considers trademarking the name as 'just doing business' when they're going to cause their community and customers a lot of angst.
Have fun,
Paul
Koha creators asking for help in trademark dispute Posted Nov 24, 2011 11:23 UTC (Thu) by dgm (subscriber, #49227) [Link]
> Personally I'm absolutely outraged.
Me too. But ask yourself: is it really worth it? I will probably feel better _if_ I win, but:
And yes, words mean things, but the dictionary is full of them. There are plenty of examples of projects that changed names for several reasons, and nothing bad did happen. Remember the Phoenix browser? Maybe you will recognize it better if I use it's current name: Firefox.
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