From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 29671 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2001 01:11:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact overseers-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: overseers-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 29644 invoked from network); 22 Nov 2001 01:11:00 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:39:00 -0000 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jason Molenda Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: sourceware.org Message-ID: <20011122011111.GA23845@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Jason Molenda , Ian Lance Taylor , overseers@sourceware.org References: <20011121220528.A1135@molenda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20011121220528.A1135@molenda.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/txt/msg00094.txt.bz2 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. From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Faylor To: Jason Molenda Cc: Ian Lance Taylor , overseers@sourceware.org Subject: Re: sourceware.org Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 17:11:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20011122011111.GA23845@redhat.com> References: <20011121220528.A1135@molenda.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-q4/msg00319.html Message-ID: <20011121171100.hvUKP4fJEcnMxbPllAih9qe8uSRhVdWsnrUxnfkiN8I@z> 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.