Here’s an arstechnica.com article providing some background and details.
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“Could Canonical Become Profitable? Yes”
There has just been this whole, big spat between this selfsame Canonical Ltd and the SF Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Micah Lee over the use of the Ubuntu mark in Lee’s fixubuntu page https://fixubuntu.com/
The same arstechnica.com publication grantbow brought above to provide some background and details on Canonical’s profitability also reported on this fixubuntu spat last week (see http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/11/canonical-abused-trademark-law-to-target-a-site-critical-of-ubuntu-privacy/ )
Besides last week’s arstechnica.com article on fixubuntu, the EFF itself went into some easy-to-read legal explanation (at least IMHO) of this at this week’s article https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/trademark-law-does-not-require-companies-tirelessly-censor-internet . Even though Canonical backstepped its potential prosecution of Micah Lee in its responses over the spat, I myself don’t think it will try to somehow twist this to its advantage. Yes, I’ve read Larry C’s Google+ comments over the spat, https://plus.google.com/109326109566201498771/posts/1wGFPJfaRFA
So, I’m really wondering whether the backlash against Canonical from their original cease-and-desist letter to Lee (and possibly their “attitude”) would affect Canonical’s short-term profitability??
What do others including Larry C and Jack D specifically think of all this??
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