Re: mysql.org

[Justin Farnsworth]

hassan el forkani wrote:
> 
> "First: take it to court.  Potentially expensive, and probably not good for
> public relations for either party"  probably the only sentence that makes
> sense in this "affaire"
> 
> from a mysql user point of view, nusphere's move is completely amateur
> 
> i can't see any intelligent motivation for it, the existence of such a site
> will only spread confusion, bad press and discredit Mysql as well as open
> source in general , and oh, isn't nusphere's main stream business Open
> Source???
> can someone from Nusphere explain it here????
[== snip, snip ==]

Hassan:

I respectfully disagree with your suggestion that such a site
would spread confusion and give discredit to MySQL.

I think it is a fine distinction to
say the (slight?) difference between mysql.com and mysql.org
would lead to confusion.  Are you confused by the extant
"mysql.net"?  What about xmysql.com?  There have been arguments
by both parties that these so-called "support sites" are in
everyone's interest.  This practice is common, just think
of linux-help.com/linux-support.com/linux-this-or-that.com
ad infinitum, and all these play in certain niches without
necessarily confusing the linux user, or to-be linux user.

Anyway, I cannot see this but a pure-and-simple trademark
issue, as far as the mysql.org site name is concerned.

_jef  
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