In the first draft of this article I had a bit about the debate in open source communities about trademark ownership, and I really didn't take sides. It's up to each individual project to choose the option best for them, but that could be an article in and of itself.
I'm not sure a company or a foundation implicitly understands what's good and better for itself over, say, an individual, but the broader the trademark ownership the less likely it is to be influenced by emotions and whims.
But that got cut as the main gist of the article is that names have value, value built on hard work and sweat. While open source code by its very nature is meant to be shared, the work of a particular group or individual deserves to be recognized and protected.
I don't rightly know. Chris is hard to read sometimes. But he has always been incredibly supportive of our project and in many ways he has always been the face of openness at Google for me.
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In the first draft of this article I had a bit about the debate in open source communities about trademark ownership, and I really didn't take sides. It's up to each individual project to choose the option best for them, but that could be an article in and of itself.
I'm not sure a company or a foundation implicitly understands what's good and better for itself over, say, an individual, but the broader the trademark ownership the less likely it is to be influenced by emotions and whims.
But that got cut as the main gist of the article is that names have value, value built on hard work and sweat. While open source code by its very nature is meant to be shared, the work of a particular group or individual deserves to be recognized and protected.
I don't rightly know. Chris is hard to read sometimes. But he has always been incredibly supportive of our project and in many ways he has always been the face of openness at Google for me.