[SoaS] updating the draft decision panel report

[Samuel Klein]

On Sun, Nov 1, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Caryl Bigenho <cbigenho at hotmail.com> wrote:

>  Hi... I guess I've become the minority.  I still believe that the name
> "Sugar On A Stick" should be allowed for all distributions of Sugar on a usb
> stick or even a live CD.
>

Caryl, I think I'm in the minority with you.   And I don't think that
"letting anyone who wants to  call their work 'Sugar on a Stick'" will get
in the way with the practical marketing decisions around it.  This doesn't
strike me as a legal issue*, mainly a social and practical one.

But there seems to be consensus in the rest of the community about making
this a precise term, and I don't feel strongly about it.

SJ

*  Recent surveys on the uses of copyright suggest technologists have a
tendency to focus on legalism; in contrast to students and free culture
groups, for instance.  I would guess the same holds for uses of trademark.



> Sugar Labs can control and identify their special builds in a special
> way... "SoaS by SugarLabs" or whatever, but the term has already become so
> generic that trying to make it exclusive at this point seems to be a waste
> of time and energy.
>
> Caryl
> (one who remembers and longs for the days when free, open source software
> really was free and open source...in the early 1980s).
>

:-)
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