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Your/. identifier is ultrabot and I can guarantee that you have been on/. much longer than I since I have just started reading/. regularly in that last couple of months. However I am a rich, famous, and powerful individual (ok... remember that we are imagining here:-)) and I want ultrabot as my identifier. Do I have the right to simply take it, make it mine and simply say: "Hey I'm bigger so it's mine"? This is acceptable in accordance with "software darwinism in action" example.
One of the first steps to creating a Trademark is to make a search for that name which should also include the public domain. I find it hard to believe that RedHat didn't do this before "[announcing] its intent to formalize... a trademark."
Personally I am getting an eerie feeling that RedHat is turning into an 'open source' Microsoft.
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Image this: Your /. identifier is ultrabot and I can guarantee that you have been on /. much longer than I since I have just started reading /. regularly in that last couple of months. However I am a rich, famous, and powerful individual (ok ... remember that we are imagining here :-)) and I want ultrabot as my identifier. Do I have the right to simply take it, make it mine and simply say: "Hey I'm bigger so it's mine"? This is acceptable in accordance with "software darwinism in action" example.
... a trademark."
One of the first steps to creating a Trademark is to make a search for that name which should also include the public domain. I find it hard to believe that RedHat didn't do this before "[announcing] its intent to formalize
Personally I am getting an eerie feeling that RedHat is turning into an 'open source' Microsoft.