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A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

Posted Sep 14, 2021 18:33 UTC (Tue) by marcH (subscriber, #57642)
In reply to: A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark by GoodMirek
Parent article: A disagreement over the PostgreSQL trademark

> After reading the view of the other side at https://postgresql.fund/blog/postgres-core-team-attacks-p... it seems to me more complicated than just "someone is trying to hijack the Postgres trademark".

tl;dr:

- A good question: Who is PostgreSQL?
- An... interesting" answer: me, so I registered the orphaned trademark and offered my "protection" without trying to talk to others about it first. Now the Core Team is launching an "unprecedented attack" on me, I wonder why?

Of course "me" is phrased as "the community" - on every side.

In the final conclusion:
> The Core Team should resign and call for open elections for a new Core Team.

No less. You can tell there's been some bad blood beyond this trademark issue.

The parallel between "distributed copyright" and "distributed trademark" is funny. It's all "Intellectual Property" after all? Can't wait for the "fork trademark" button on Github.


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