Tag Archives: Law and freedom

Renaming Ubuntu derivatives

Working together with the Ubuntu trademarks team we renamed our Ubuntu derivatives: minibuntu becomes Ubuntu mini remix “ubuntu in italiano” becomes Ubuntu remix italiano (which is the Italian name for “Ubuntu Italian remix) Following up the distrowatch’s story about Ubuntu trademarks, as the first Italian Ubuntu affiliate we (CreaLabs) are trying to be a good [...]

War is started: Red had has been sued for patent infringement

IP Innovation LLC sued Red Hat and Novell (yes, Novell) for patent infringement about multiple workspaces (you’re right, this is unbelievable). Is there Microsoft hand? We can’t say that but we know that IP Innovation LLC has just recruited some Microsoft executives… Please read the complete article on Groklaw.

A free school revolution idea

Back in 2003, with CreaLabs we started the e-Socrates project, creating the first Italian portal promoting the free e-learning philosophy, because we truly believe that knowledge must be free. Some days ago Simone Brunozzi told me about an idea he was working on, a community made by students and teachers, together creating documentation that would [...]

iloveubuntu.com: this is trademark violation

Ubuntu trademark is clear, and the iloveubuntu.com website (intentionally not linked) is violating it, hope Canonical will make that great joke stop. UPDATE: this post would be a provocation, ’cause you know I’m a bit sceptic about free software and trademarks. I also know about ie7.com and many others, same story here and there. :)

Ubuntu delusion: BuildYourUbuntu.com won’t come to life, trademarks win, ideas lose

Introduction: We (CreaLabs) are Ubuntu affiliate because of: some Ubuntu promotion/spreading activities 2 ubuntu derivative distros: ubuntu italian iso, ufficio zero Ubuntu Customization Kit We constantly and actively support open source and free software with many projects (check crealabs.it for the list). All of these projects were created and are maintained for free. The new [...]

Is Ubuntu trademark appliance working?

If you don’t know it, read the beginning of the story. This is the 3rd week I’m waiting for an answer, will someone ever answer me? Also Mark alert seems not to gave me priority. It seems to me that the “startup” term is loosing his meaning. I love Ubuntu but I’m starting to think [...]

Are trademarks compatible with free software philosophy? A real story about Ubuntu and me.

You want to start a commercial website, you want to spread the the Ubuntu word and you’re already involved in some Ubuntu related free initiatives (let’s say you’re also an Ubuntu affiliate). You’ve to decide the name of your business (and the website domain too) and we all know how much relevance this task has [...]

Another DRM failure

Every news website today is flooded by the “HD-DVD key found” news, but what’s the meaning of all this confusion? I see two different episodes: censorship: some of those sites censored the news that publishes the key revolt: after the news were deleted, those sites were flooded, a real attack against that kind of control, [...]