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

Robin Shannon robin.shannon at gmail.com
Sun Oct 30 15:30:57 UTC 2005


On 10/31/05, Dan Grey <dangrey at gmail.com> wrote:
> It was crystal clear to me the very first time I read it that the
> company are just offering MediaWiki installs in their hosting plans,
> which afaik they're perfectly entitled to do.
>
> This is a fuss over nothing - if anything, we should be congratulating
> them!

But Dan, you and I both know what MeidaWiki is, the average (wo)man on
the street doesn't.

I agree with you it's a good thing TM that they are using MediaWIki,
but it did seem to me like they were trying to pass it off as thier
own. Still i don't think it's that important.

paz y amor,
-rjs.

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