[tur-users] Ion3 trademark infringement

[Tuomo Valkonen]

On 2007-04-29, Mark Taylor <skymt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I would contend that there is no trademark violation, as permission for
> minor modifications to the source of Ion3 is implied by distributing the
> source. 

Nothing promises you must still be able to call it Ion3. (Despite the
license being LGPL, I really don't care what you do with the code --
use it even in a commercial closed source project if you want. Just
don't claim my work as someone else's, and someone else's work as mine
-- as is being done by applying patches and still claiming it to be 
Ion3.)

> The only way to keep absolute control over the product as delivered to 
> the user is to change the license and distribute Ion3 as binary-only.

I am going to do that. And, in fact, after final Ion3 is released, I'm
not going to write a line of so-called "free software"; so poor has
been the treatment of the FOSS herd (both of my code, and of the good
old *nix), that I'm not going to do them any services any more. 

> I also disagree with your mention of competition, unless it was purely
> in a trademark-law sense. Wikipedia defines competition as "the act of
> striving against others for the purpose of achieving dominance." 

The goal of an XFT-patched Ion is dominance over the standard Ion,
and dominance over people who prefer decent font systems over the
Xft and fontconfig based blurry-font force-feeding shit, as the
good old core font system gets obsoleted and removed.

> which means that open-source software development is typically
> cooperative, with the goal of producing the best software possible rather
> than merely having more users than the other project.

The goal of the FOSS herd is to turn everything into homogeneous 
shit, with no trace of individual character left.

-- 
Tuomo