Kornknacker
September 6th, 2007, 08:46 PM
Hello @ all,
[K]UbuntuMail.de is a free german e-mail forwarding service for Ubuntu users. A few hours ago, we received an email from Canoncial:
Dear *,
Thank you for contacting us.
Unfortunately your project is in breach of our trademark policy and we cannot allow you to use Ubuntu in a domain name. The reason for this is that users could get confused over the nature of the relationship between your project and Ubuntu.
More information can be found on the following link: http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
Kind regards,
***
our answer:
Dear Mrs. ***
thank you for the your answer.
Concerning on the discussion at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-dk/2007-August/000502.html
we can't understand your decision.
We said that Ubuntu and Kubuntu are Trademarks of Canonical.
We said that this is a non commercial project only.
We didn't change your logo in any non allowed way.
We just wanted to give the great german community of Ubuntu something back, because we had supported the ideas behind Ubuntu.
It should humanly, but your company doesn't represent this thoughts we suggest.
Why do you allow for one project to use Ubuntu in a domain name and for another project you ban the usage?
Bastian and me cannot support the thoughts of Ubuntu anymore and we decided to tell our users and friends at our german forums what you wrote us, and will describe our feelings behind it.
For us, there is no reason to use Ubuntu and everything behind anymore. We are sad to leave a great community, but lucky to leave a company that does not represent it's own thoughts.
Sincerely
[K]UbuntuMail.de Support
What do you think about it?
[K]UbuntuMail.de is a free german e-mail forwarding service for Ubuntu users. A few hours ago, we received an email from Canoncial:
Dear *,
Thank you for contacting us.
Unfortunately your project is in breach of our trademark policy and we cannot allow you to use Ubuntu in a domain name. The reason for this is that users could get confused over the nature of the relationship between your project and Ubuntu.
More information can be found on the following link: http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
Kind regards,
***
our answer:
Dear Mrs. ***
thank you for the your answer.
Concerning on the discussion at https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-dk/2007-August/000502.html
we can't understand your decision.
We said that Ubuntu and Kubuntu are Trademarks of Canonical.
We said that this is a non commercial project only.
We didn't change your logo in any non allowed way.
We just wanted to give the great german community of Ubuntu something back, because we had supported the ideas behind Ubuntu.
It should humanly, but your company doesn't represent this thoughts we suggest.
Why do you allow for one project to use Ubuntu in a domain name and for another project you ban the usage?
Bastian and me cannot support the thoughts of Ubuntu anymore and we decided to tell our users and friends at our german forums what you wrote us, and will describe our feelings behind it.
For us, there is no reason to use Ubuntu and everything behind anymore. We are sad to leave a great community, but lucky to leave a company that does not represent it's own thoughts.
Sincerely
[K]UbuntuMail.de Support
What do you think about it?