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    <B>atilla ontas</B> 
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    <I>Tue Sep 21 22:30:49 CEST 2010</I>
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<PRE>Thats an important issue. Is it a legal problem?

2010/9/21 David W. Hodgins &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">davidwhodgins at gmail.com</A>&gt;:
&gt;<i> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:05 -0400, Lawrence A Fossi &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">darkfoss at comst.net</A>&gt;
</I>&gt;<i> wrote:
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</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It's inevitable that Mageia would be claimed on some accounts.. a quick
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Google turned up 1 US business 1 guy on Twitter
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and a second with JA-Mageia..all on page 1 of the search
</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home">http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home</A>
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</I>&gt;<i> Ouch! &#160;Is this a show stopper for the name mageia?
</I>&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://mageia.com/">http://mageia.com/</A>
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> The domain was registered in 2001, with the ownership hidden
</I>&gt;<i> by Domains by Proxy. &#160;The sites.google.com, and the
</I>&gt;<i> &quot;Recent Site Activity&quot; link on mageia.com shows it's
</I>&gt;<i> being maintained by &quot;John Wells Sr&quot;.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Note that the logo consists of the site name in a stylized
</I>&gt;<i> script, with the phrase &quot;Isn't it magic&quot;, as the &quot;future Web
</I>&gt;<i> home for Mageia Minerals of Chassell, Michigan&quot;. &#160;The site
</I>&gt;<i> consists of a single page hosted on sites.google.com. &#160;The
</I>&gt;<i> recent activity indicates it was all created July 26th, 2010.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
</I>&gt;<i> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
</I>&gt;<i> site.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
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</I>&gt;<i> Regards, Dave Hodgins
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