Yeah you're totally right about that, but if your business plan relies on cashing in on the brand recognition of someone else's mark I'd say you should reevaluate your business plan. >_>
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biz plans that cash in on other people's reputations are entirely legit! Look at all the big consulting companies that leverage the fact that they know Linux! Or cross-branding (firms that license NFL IP to make jerseys). It works...IF THEY ARE ALLOWED. Party #2 was allowed
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The distinctions are obvious but by and large, you're right, if you do it *right* it's not the worst idea. :)
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Often there are benefits that flow in both direction above and beyond the cash flow (if any). E.g. IBM gets to brag that it knows Linux, and the linux foundation gets extra marketing from IBM. This video game deal COULD have been like that ... but wasn't. Or ... maybe wasn't?
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From my non-lawyer perspective, the core issue is that the first party had some sort of non-analytical view on what's "fair", and it evolved over time. The problem is that he gave promises to party 2, and with those promises the deal was done.
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One reason we have law and contracts is that it lets one remove potential headaches and create certainty about the future. Tangentially, I've noticed that there is a continuum of human personality types, from "interaction is a BENEFIT" to "...is a DETRIMENT". I've seen >>>
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this divide play out in topics as odd as maker-spaces / hacker-spaces. Introverts love owning their own tools bc there are never any future debates about access, fairness, etc. Extroverts / left libertarians love sharing not despite but BECAUSE of the future debates. >>>
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"we need to have a three hour meeting to discuss what a fair way to share the metal lathe is, and come up with some rules, and reach consensus" is actually a BENEFIT to some people, not a reason to commit suicide This vid game designer (#1) is prob of this type. >>>
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"sharing without copyright is WONDERFUL because we get to haggle over the details and renegotiate things FOREVER" me: <racks shotgun, aims at own head> /exeunt
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I don't think that reflects Jason's mindset. He puts his stuff into the public domain precisely so he *doesn't* have to deal with such details. He doesn't want to. The problem is that public domain turns out to work not /quite/ the way he thought, in a very important way.
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related rant: "let's do it with a handshake" is terrible. Not because you shouldn't trust people, but because you should use the tool of writing to tease out all the things that you're agreed that you need to trust each other ON.
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Worth pointing out that "do it with a handshake" doesn't apply to this case (not sure if you were implying it did) - there was no agreement at all. Only the public domain grant, and Jason's mistaken impression of what that implied.
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> Jason's mistaken impression of what that implied. can you clarify what he thought it meant? I missed that. Thx.
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