[License]: need expert

David Simmons David.Simmons at smallscript.com
Sun Feb 10 21:58:59 UTC 2002


> -----Original Message-----
> From: squeak-dev-admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org [mailto:squeak-dev-
> admin at lists.squeakfoundation.org] On Behalf Of Tim Rowledge
> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 8:19 AM
> To: squeak-dev at lists.squeakfoundation.org
> Subject: Re: [License]: need expert
> 
> cg at home.cdegroot.com (Cees de Groot) is claimed by the authorities to
have
> written:
> 
> > Alan Kay <Alan.Kay at squeakland.org> said:
> > >And while you are at it, explain to them that trademarking "Open
> > >Source", if they reallly have done something so dumb, is at least a
> > >moral violation of everything that "open source" is about.
> > >
> > I said:
> > >>you cannot call it Open Source (AFAIK, that's a trademark) [...]
> Given the absurd nature of much of the legal environment,
trademarking,
> registering or indeed patenting can sometimes be the only effective
way
> to keep something free. It prevents 'blackhats' from grabbing it and
> twisting it around. Imagine if M$ had trademarked Opensource or Linux!

Yeah, or more likely given the relative number of patents, Sun, IBM, or
any number of Japanese corporations.

-- Dave S. [www.smallscript.org]

> 
> tim
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