Friday, February 22, 2008

Red Hat legal argument on tenuous ground?

Readwriteweb has a story today on Red Hat sending a cease and desist letter to DataPortability.org over their use of an �infinity� logo.

Here�s the DataPortability logo:


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And here�s the Fedora logo:


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Except I suspect they�re all on weak ground, because Dataproducts, a company that has been around for a long time, has been using a similar logo for years:

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(Dataproducts was actually a customer of mine back in the mid-eighties, and the lead engineer on our Ninja product used to work for them. While they are not widely known, they made printers for mainframes, and apparently now they�re in the business of ink refills.)

Alex Eckelberry

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