[Foundation-l] Re: Trademark violation of our 'MediaWiki' mark

Sun Oct 30 09:22:20 UTC 2005

Dori wrote:
> On 10/28/05, Daniel Mayer <maveric149 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
>>Webhosting Provider, Aplus.Net, Launches Media Wiki
>>http://www.cheaphostingdirectory.com/news-webhosting-provider-aplus-net-launches-media-wiki-1538.html
>>
> 
> 
> I don't think they're diluting the mark, they even link to
> mediawiki.org in their FAQ:
> http://www.apluskb.com/scripts/search_kb.pl?catid=1&sid=4448582990&q=wiki&p=&showquestion=3275
> 
> They're just using it IMO

At worse, they misspelled the name by writing 'Media Wiki' instead of
'MediaWiki' as we use to do. Still a valid name to me.

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