[Mageia-discuss] Google, yahoo, Hotmail and Flickr accounts

Tue Sep 21 22:30:49 CEST 2010

Thats an important issue. Is it a legal problem?
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+2010/9/21 David W. Hodgins <davidwhodgins at gmail.com>:
+> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:05 -0400, Lawrence A Fossi <darkfoss at comst.net>
+> wrote:
+>
+>> It's inevitable that Mageia would be claimed on some accounts.. a quick
+>> Google turned up 1 US business 1 guy on Twitter
+>> and a second with JA-Mageia..all on page 1 of the search
+>> http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home
+>
+> Ouch!  Is this a show stopper for the name mageia?
+> http://mageia.com/
+>
+> The domain was registered in 2001, with the ownership hidden
+> by Domains by Proxy.  The sites.google.com, and the
+> "Recent Site Activity" link on mageia.com shows it's
+> being maintained by "John Wells Sr".
+>
+> Note that the logo consists of the site name in a stylized
+> script, with the phrase "Isn't it magic", as the "future Web
+> home for Mageia Minerals of Chassell, Michigan".  The site
+> consists of a single page hosted on sites.google.com.  The
+> recent activity indicates it was all created July 26th, 2010.
+>
+> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
+> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
+> site.
+>
+> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
+>
+> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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