Trademarks and open source monopoly
Our own Big Money Matt is en fuego. Today he asks some great questions about the reach of trademark law in protecting open source companies from competition.
You may want to provide support or training for an open source product, and under the law you can. But you may not be able to say the name of the product you’re supporting unless the company behind it gives you permission to do so.
Catch-22 indeed. And while I’m reading Matt’s copy there, in the corner, is an ad offering training on Alfresco, his company’s product. Does that ad violate the Alfresco trademark? Especially if it just names the product and doesn’t copy its trade dress?
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