trademarks [was: xulrunner 2.0 in rawhide (F15) bundles several system libs]

[Przemek Klosowski]

On 10/07/2010 08:36 AM, Brandon Lozza wrote:
> On 10/6/10, Adam Williamson<awilliam at redhat.com>  wrote:

>> If we don't protect the Fedora trademark, anyone can produce anything
>> and call it 'Fedora'. Including something which doesn't fit into our
>> philosophy of freedom at all.
>
> What are you guys going to do if someone does it anyway in a country
> where Redhat hasn't registered the Fedora trademark, or countries
> where another country already owns the Fedora trademark. Do you think
> spammers are going to host in the good old US of A? Bad argument.

OK, so someone can fool the Elbonians with a bad Fedora distribution. 
The bad guys will not be able to peddle it anywhere else, because the 
trademark will protect it, so the majority of Fedora users will be safe 
from this scam. The system works.

> Strawman arguments make bad policy change decisions.

Indeed.