Re: [Freeswitch-users] How about a USER FORUM and kill off the mail list?
Hi, It will be a forum in Russian, first off all. Also I can help in English too (a little). If somebody can help for English users too, it would be very nice. Mailing list is a good thing, but a forum is much better to me. All those who think this way - welcome to freeswitchforum.com. If this mail topic appears from time to time - so, many people are interested in it. I try to give an opportunity and not a holy war. Evginey С уважением Евгений.
You cant use FreeSWITCHForum.com as a domain name without violating FreeSWITCH Trademarks... Now you are putting the project maintainers in an awkward position as you can not keep your trademarks protected unless you defend them... On 7/3/12 8:43 AM, "Евгений" <joohny@mail.ru> wrote:
Hi,
It will be a forum in Russian, first off all. Also I can help in English too (a little). If somebody can help for English users too, it would be very nice. Mailing list is a good thing, but a forum is much better to me. All those who think this way - welcome to freeswitchforum.com. If this mail topic appears from time to time - so, many people are interested in it. I try to give an opportunity and not a holy war.
Evginey С уважением Евгений.
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On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 7:39 AM, Ken Rice <krice@freeswitch.org> wrote:
You cant use FreeSWITCHForum.com as a domain name without violating FreeSWITCH Trademarks... Now you are putting the project maintainers in an awkward position as you can not keep your trademarks protected unless you defend them...
This is a slippery slope. If the target server is in a country whose laws differ from the country where the trademark was established then it's a huge mess. However, the safe thing to do is to call it the "Unofficial FreeSWITCH Forum" and have a disclaimer on the site itself and say that "FreeSWITCH is a registered trademark of Anthony Minessale. FreeSWITCHForum.com is not in any way endorsed by, or affiliated with, the FreeSWITCH project." As far as "defending" the trademark - that's also a slippery slope. Trademarks are a form of IP that are designed to protect consumers, not trademark holders. A trademark holder must only "defend" if there is some sort of activity that may cause "confusion" or "dilution" or something similar. Simply creating a website with "FreeSWITCH" in the domain name is not an act of trademark infringement, even in the US. However, if the title on the web page said "Official FreeSWITCH Forum" then that would absolutely be an act of trademark infringement because people would be "confused" - that is, people would think that the site was sponsored/endorsed by the trademark holder when in fact it is not. Also, deceptive domain names could be infringing, like www.officialfreeswitchforum.com. I recommend that the OP politely ask Anthony if he has an reservations about the OP running a site called "FreeSWITCH Forum". -MC
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