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From: Marc G. Fournier <[email protected]>
To: Josh Berkus <[email protected]>
Cc: Rod Taylor <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Promoting PostgreSQL to the world.
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 17:48:11 -0300 (ADT)
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
References: <[email protected]>
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Josh Berkus wrote:

> And it's not like CMD is a total non-contributor in the way dbExperts
> is.  While they're not patching modules to the main source, they've
> released several add-ons as OSS.  If I was going to yank the trademark
> chain on anyone, it would be dbexperts.

Agreed ... CP has done various things to contribute to the project ...

> However, Linux did *not* get where it is today by Linus prohibiting the
> use of the name.  We *should* send out letters to companies making sure
> that they have a trademark notice for us ("PostgreSQL is a Registered
> Trademark") ... but that opens up another sticky can o'worms, namely
> that the trademark is filed for PostgreSQL Inc, not for the PGDG, which
> legally doesn't exist.

Doesn't make it any less of a Registered Trademark though ...

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