I don't think it is this complex. In most cases I see the process is
as follows:
1. John Doe starts project XYZ
2. John Doe registers the XYZ trademark privately. (has to not
company yet)
3. Project grows with the efforts of the community.
4. John Doe and others starts XYZ Corp.
5. XYZ Inc enforces trademark protection against some of the
very people who made it successful.
There is nothing wrong with this except for step 3. I'd guess this
same scam happened with copyright before licenses were certified and
classified. Now days the community has expectations that a copyright
license must be certified, but they have not expectations for
trademarks.
-dain
On Mar 25, 2007, at 10:37 AM, Niclas Hedhman wrote:
> On Sunday 25 March 2007 23:58, Geir Magnusson Jr. wrote:
>> I'm familiar with what happened there. But that's independent of the
>> trademark issue you bring up..
>
> Agree. Let's move JBoss out of the equation. My mistake to assume
> it was a
> well-understood scenario.
>
> The question revolves around;
>
> 1. WXYZ community was created, by a group of people who likes WX.
> 2. The project change name to XYZ
> 3. John Doe registers the XYZ trademark privately.
> 4. The community grows, and project becomes successful.
> 5. Many companies provides support and other services around XYZ.
> 6. John Doe and others starts XYZ Corp.
> 7. XYZ Inc enforces trademark protection against some of the
> very people who made it successful.
>
>
> Any suggestions on how to pre-empt such scenario, so that people
> who has been
> involved or observed this happening in the past is not reluctant to
> collaborate on new exciting technologies.
>
> I think the key is XYZ trademark, and possibly XYZ Corp.
>
>
> Cheers
> Niclas
>
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