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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 1, Issue 80</H1>
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</I>><i> Thats an important issue. Is it a legal problem?
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</I>><i> 2010/9/21 David W. Hodgins <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">davidwhodgins at gmail.com</A>>:
</I>>><i> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 19:15:05 -0400, Lawrence A Fossi
</I>>><i> <<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">darkfoss at comst.net</A>>
</I>>><i> wrote:
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</I>>>><i> It's inevitable that Mageia would be claimed on some accounts.. a quick
</I>>>><i> Google turned up 1 US business 1 guy on Twitter
</I>>>><i> and a second with JA-Mageia..all on page 1 of the search
</I>>>><i> <A HREF="http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home">http://sites.google.com/site/johnwellssr/home</A>
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</I>>><i> Ouch! ?Is this a show stopper for the name mageia?
</I>>><i> <A HREF="http://mageia.com/">http://mageia.com/</A>
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</I>>><i> The domain was registered in 2001, with the ownership hidden
</I>>><i> by Domains by Proxy. ?The sites.google.com, and the
</I>>><i> "Recent Site Activity" link on mageia.com shows it's
</I>>><i> being maintained by "John Wells Sr".
</I>>><i>
</I>>><i> Note that the logo consists of the site name in a stylized
</I>>><i> script, with the phrase "Isn't it magic", as the "future Web
</I>>><i> home for Mageia Minerals of Chassell, Michigan". ?The site
</I>>><i> consists of a single page hosted on sites.google.com. ?The
</I>>><i> recent activity indicates it was all created July 26th, 2010.
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</I>>><i> While mageia.org is not the same as mageia.com, I expect
</I>>><i> a lot of users are going to accidentally go to the wrong
</I>>><i> site.
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</I>>><i> Is this going to be potential legal problem?
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Could be. I think the team failed to do something very basic before they
made a final decision on the name - mageia.org, mageia.com, mageia.net
mageia.eu. Maybe they did and did not think it was something to fret
about.
Hopefully it is not, but it does not look good from my end.
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