From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: sourceware.org
Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011122011111.GA23845@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011121220528.A1135@molenda.com>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:05:28PM +0000, Jason Molenda wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:46:40PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> I noticed that the domain name sourceware.org was available.
>
>Sweet! I've been meaning to look at the status of Sourceware for
>a little while now. Back in '98 or '99 there was some l0zers who'd
>purchased the trademark rights are were telling us to stop using
>the name (which I essentially ignored :-) - I'm positive their
>company doesn't exist any longer. It sounded implausible even in
>the silly high-times of 1999-2000.
>
>The whois record for sourceware.com shows the owner bought it for
>five years. Boo! It looks like a single person doing some side
>work out of his home.
AFAICT, it looks like the current trademark owner is different from the
sourceware.com and sourceware.net domain name owners.
So, I'm not worried either.
Should we start referring to the system as sourceware.org? I tend to
call the system sourcew, er, sources, anyway.
cgf
Cyg, er, Red Hat, Inc.
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From: Christopher Faylor <cgf@redhat.com>
To: Jason Molenda <jason@molenda.com>
Cc: Ian Lance Taylor <ian@airs.com>, overseers@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: sourceware.org
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20011122011111.GA23845@redhat.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20011121171100.hvUKP4fJEcnMxbPllAih9qe8uSRhVdWsnrUxnfkiN8I@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20011121220528.A1135@molenda.com>
On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:05:28PM +0000, Jason Molenda wrote:
>On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 01:46:40PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> I noticed that the domain name sourceware.org was available.
>
>Sweet! I've been meaning to look at the status of Sourceware for
>a little while now. Back in '98 or '99 there was some l0zers who'd
>purchased the trademark rights are were telling us to stop using
>the name (which I essentially ignored :-) - I'm positive their
>company doesn't exist any longer. It sounded implausible even in
>the silly high-times of 1999-2000.
>
>The whois record for sourceware.com shows the owner bought it for
>five years. Boo! It looks like a single person doing some side
>work out of his home.
AFAICT, it looks like the current trademark owner is different from the
sourceware.com and sourceware.net domain name owners.
So, I'm not worried either.
Should we start referring to the system as sourceware.org? I tend to
call the system sourcew, er, sources, anyway.
cgf
Cyg, er, Red Hat, Inc.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-11-22 1:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-22 17:15 sourceware.org Ian Lance Taylor
2001-10-23 18:19 ` sourceware.org Jason Molenda
2001-10-25 16:39 ` Christopher Faylor [this message]
2001-11-21 17:11 ` sourceware.org Christopher Faylor
2001-11-21 14:05 ` sourceware.org Jason Molenda
2001-10-23 19:37 ` sourceware.org Per Bothner
2001-10-24 8:32 ` sourceware.org Ian Lance Taylor
2001-11-21 14:45 ` sourceware.org Ian Lance Taylor
2001-11-21 14:20 ` sourceware.org Per Bothner
2001-11-21 13:46 ` sourceware.org Ian Lance Taylor
2003-03-04 15:41 sourceware.org Jonathan Larmour
2003-03-05 2:52 ` sourceware.org Christopher Faylor
2003-03-05 6:42 ` sourceware.org Jason Molenda
2003-03-05 7:14 ` sourceware.org Phil Edwards
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