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

Tue Sep 21 22:31:32 CEST 2010

  El 21/09/10 16:00, atilla ontas escribió:
+> Thats an important issue. Is it a legal problem?
+>
+> 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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+Ohhh, that smells like..... Wach out!
+