I read on their website that the Freedom Toaster is now run as an independent project and that it is run as for profit.
Now many, many years ago when the thing had no name, yes it didn't have a name once and the called it the Linux vending machine or some such, I was a member of the CLUG(Cape Town Linux User Group) and in one of my posts to the group I called it the Freedom Toaster. The name caught on and I was contacted to ask if they could use the name for the machines and also asked me to participate in choosing the design for the logo. The flying toaster was my choice and it's still their logo today. For a few years it was mentioned on the main website in the credits that I coined the name, but that has been removed.
Anyway, my only condition was that the name stay in the public domain, nobody has any rights to it and that anyone who builds such a vending machine be allowed to post call it a Freedom Toaster. Now, it's a for profit project. What I would like to know is if Canonical or the Shuttleworth Foundation now claims some kind of copyright to the name?
If the name is being commercialized or they claim some kind of copyright to it, I'm sure the CLUG logs would show otherwise and some kind of compensation would be in order if the name was to be moved out of the public domain.
I have no feelings or respect for people who kill themselves, no matter what.I do hate employers who make people their slaves and treat them like dirt.
But I mean WTF will you do if they signed the pledge and kill themselves anyway? Put them in jail to rot? LOL
I suppose these guys haven't checked out Google Streetview yet. That has just about everything photographed you can possibly think of, and I'm sure there are a bunch of Amtrak trains in their pictures. Wonder who's going to get harassed over those? No wait, everyone who looks at the pictures might get into trouble... Shit, shouldn't be giving them any ideas here...
Luckily, living at the bottom tip of Africa, you can take photos of anything. You may even take photos of the president and his cavalcade. Your just not allowed to take photographs of said while flipping them off. It's ok to photograph them, or to flip them of, but not both at once because that's seen as a threat. I kid you not...
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I read on their website that the Freedom Toaster is now run as an independent project and that it is run as for profit. Now many, many years ago when the thing had no name, yes it didn't have a name once and the called it the Linux vending machine or some such, I was a member of the CLUG(Cape Town Linux User Group) and in one of my posts to the group I called it the Freedom Toaster. The name caught on and I was contacted to ask if they could use the name for the machines and also asked me to participate in choosing the design for the logo. The flying toaster was my choice and it's still their logo today. For a few years it was mentioned on the main website in the credits that I coined the name, but that has been removed. Anyway, my only condition was that the name stay in the public domain, nobody has any rights to it and that anyone who builds such a vending machine be allowed to post call it a Freedom Toaster. Now, it's a for profit project. What I would like to know is if Canonical or the Shuttleworth Foundation now claims some kind of copyright to the name? If the name is being commercialized or they claim some kind of copyright to it, I'm sure the CLUG logs would show otherwise and some kind of compensation would be in order if the name was to be moved out of the public domain.
I have no feelings or respect for people who kill themselves, no matter what.I do hate employers who make people their slaves and treat them like dirt. But I mean WTF will you do if they signed the pledge and kill themselves anyway? Put them in jail to rot? LOL
That was the first comment on /. that really made me LOL.
Trust beer in a dead squirrel to achieve that...
I suppose these guys haven't checked out Google Streetview yet. That has just about everything photographed you can possibly think of, and I'm sure there are a bunch of Amtrak trains in their pictures. Wonder who's going to get harassed over those? No wait, everyone who looks at the pictures might get into trouble... Shit, shouldn't be giving them any ideas here... Luckily, living at the bottom tip of Africa, you can take photos of anything. You may even take photos of the president and his cavalcade. Your just not allowed to take photographs of said while flipping them off. It's ok to photograph them, or to flip them of, but not both at once because that's seen as a threat. I kid you not...
You'll have to have "42" done somewhere. I mean, that is the ultimate answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything...