[Twisted-Python] suggestions for naming to help us preserve a Twisted trademark

Jonathan Lange jml at mumak.net
Thu May 29 23:09:20 EDT 2008


On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Tim Stebbing <tjstebbing at gmail.com> wrote:
>> More seriously, Emacs, Apache, Linux, Python, Debian and Ubuntu are
>> all trademarked. The Emacs trademark is held by the FSF, bastions of
>> ideological purity. So far, I've encountered only one person who finds
>> this suspicious. Hi Tim :)
>>
>
> 'other people do this thing so we should also do this thing' is not a
> great argument. I'm not against the idea, I just have some questions
> we're yet to have answered.
>

That's not what I said.

You said "trademarks make people suspicious". I provided
counter-examples, demonstrating that your statement is not true in the
general case.

jml




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