| From: | Russell Brady <brady2(at)apple(dot)com> |
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| To: | "Tor Slettnes" <tor(at)slett(dot)net>, <spi-general(at)lists(dot)spi-inc(dot)org> |
| Cc: | "Staci Sheppard" <sheppard(at)apple(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Apple claims "Open Source" trademark |
| Date: | 1999-03-17 20:45:17 |
| Message-ID: | 199903172040.MAA14764@scv4.apple.com |
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>>>>> "bruce" == bruce <bruce(at)hams(dot)com> writes:
>
> bruce> Given the amount of contention regarding the trademark, the
> bruce> easiest thing to do would be to place it in the public
> bruce> domain and let it die of lost meaning.
>
>
>If you read the press release,
> http://www.newsalert.com/bin/story?StoryId=CnU3LubWbu0zuvta4o&FQ=Linux&SymH
>
>you will see towards the bottom:
> "Open Source is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc."
>
>
>Like it or not, but now may be neccessary to come up with some of the
>documents regarding the trademark, how it was handled initially etc.
>Not only for Eric "Shoot Bill, get famous" Raymond, but in actual
>legal confronation with Apple.
>
>-tor
Tor
Please note the press release now has the correct trademark information.
Sorry about the confusion.
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1999/mar/16opensource.html
best regards
Russell
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