Mailing-List: contact dev-help@openoffice.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@openoffice.apache.org
Received-SPF: pass (nike.apache.org: domain of dave2wave@comcast.net
 designates 76.96.30.64 as permitted sender)
From: Dave Fisher <dave2wave@comcast.net>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Subject: [DISCUSS] Recourse for Sites Which Do Not Acknowledge Trademarks
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 15:46:54 -0800
Message-Id: <5027BAA4-FE39-4FE8-A3A5-64DAB0DA72DD@comcast.net>
To: dev@openoffice.apache.org,
 marketing@openoffice.apache.org
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1085)

One of the ways that sites that offer downloads of Apache OpenOffice (or =
OpenOffice.org) often do is:

(1) Don't acknowledge that the trademarks are the Apache Software =
Foundation's.

(2) Make use of the project's and ASF's resources to offer free support =
and other downloads.

They simply hide as legitimate sites. One example is openoffice.us.com.

One thing that we can do to get in the way of this is keep a list of =
these domains and when web requests are referred from them we can take =
users to a warning page where we can explain the situation, help users =
get to legitimate resources and let these providers know how to properly =
reference trademarks and make their offering distinct from Apache =
OpenOffice.

Perhaps there is something that can be done with Google to have them =
downgrade search terms for OpenOffice for specific URLs.

Regards,
Dave=