Tuesday January 15, 2008 links for 2008-01-15
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Superficially normal yet not many of us are. Apparently.
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As I said in India, this issue is going to be the next battleground for Free software too.
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The European Commission decides there is a prima facie case to investigate following the Opera and ECIS complaints.
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Tim Bray joins the Canadian delegation to the OOXML BRM.
Posted by webmink
( Jan 15 2008, 12:30:31 AM PST )
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Actually on reading the article on the calendar, I would argue the car club didn't do the right thing. Also, this has nothing whatsoever to do with piracy, it's a cut and dried trademark protection. Unfortunately the way that trademark law is written, if you don't aggressively protect your trademark you could lose it. What the club *should* have done was to contact Ford's liaison for Enthusiasts clubs and seek a one off license for the calendar. They may even have granted it for nothing, or at least a token.
Alan.
Posted by Alan Hargreaves on January 15, 2008 at 01:59 PM PST #
Some links for today -
http://discuss.joyent.com/viewtopic.php?id=19430
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/Jan/16/joyent_backup_services_down_for_three_days.html
Posted by Kishor Gurtu on January 15, 2008 at 11:17 PM PST #
The car thing was rapidly sorted out to the satisfaction of all (except probably CafePress) - http://www.bmcforums.com/showthread.php?t=42820
Posted by Gwyn Evans on January 17, 2008 at 07:31 AM PST #
Trademarking and copyright law has transformed from a set of defensive rules meant to protect intellectual property owners and inventors against unfair competition to an aggressive means to build and keep market dominance, actually hindering innovation rather than fostering it.
I hope that the judiciary will be able to adapt quickly enough to thwart the profiteers.
Posted by 192.9.112.196 on January 23, 2008 at 06:34 AM PST #