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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 8, 2012 22:43 UTC (Sat) by cyanit (guest, #86671)
In reply to: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do? by neilbrown
Parent article: Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

The issue here is the lack of a requirement to make trademarks free as well.

This allows Ubuntu to abuse his trademark power to give more visibility to his crippled distribution compared to variants lacking the antifeature in question.


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Stallman: Ubuntu Spyware: What to Do?

Posted Dec 9, 2012 15:39 UTC (Sun) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]

I, for one, am fine with $DISTRIBUTION being the only one to be able to use their trademarks to advertise their (mis)features...

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