[tur-users] Ion3 trademark infringement

[Aaron Griffin]

On 4/29/07, Georgij Kondratjev <smpuj at bk.ru> wrote:
> Thomas Bächler wrote:
>
> > This thread has just been brought to my attention and I am posting this
> > to the tur and arch development mailing list.
> >
> > I suggest that we drop the modified ion version from AUR. I also
> > strongly suggest that we remove ALL ion-related packages from AUR and
> > official repos, as well as all other packages that have been released by
> > the author.
> >
> > Arch always tries to provide the best and latest for its users. In doing
> > so, we cannot afford getting sued. So if a package author THREATENS us,
> > then there is no place for his/her software in our distribution and the
> > only possible response is to not provide it any more, no matter how good
> > it is. I am really disappointed that people have to resort to these
> > kinds of actions, and I am sorry that I feel obligated to the proper
> > reactions.
>
> Very good speech! You have convinced me much more successfull then Tuomo.

I have to agree here.  Frankly. the position taken by Mr Valkonen
saddens me.  This is not in the spirit of open source.  It is in the
spirit of selfishness.

Frankly, I don't think it really matters if we remove ion3 anymore.
Most of the people who use WMs of this nature have moved away from it
and on to better software anyway.  It's fairly insignificant anymore
compared to much better alternatives, like dwm and the like.

So here's the real question.  We have two options:
a) Keep ion around and deal with threats every so often, which will
cause us a bunch of grief.
b) drop ion3 and point and and all users at better alternatives.
Which would you chose?

I vote for b