[SGVLUG] Linux Trade mark ...

[Tom Emerson]

On Friday 19 August 2005 4:49 pm, matti wrote:
> fyi -
>
> Linux Trademark...
>
> best info from Maddog: / also check out [groklaw]

One comment that came up in both discussions was "do user groups have to pay?" 
and the short answer is "probably not" [with several well-argued reasons why]  
It does bring to mind that in the distant past, this group used to write it's 
initials as "sgvllug" with two L's -- the full name being the "San Gabriel 
Valley Linux Local User Group" [or was it "San Gabriel Valley Local Linux 
User Group?"] -- the fact that I say "or was it..." was something I pointed 
out was confusing and excessive about the name -- all physically-attended 
user groups are "local" by definition, so two L's didn't really gain that 
much.  I suggested dropping one (but would have accepted it if the others 
insisted that they wanted it that way) the suggestion met little resistance, 
so we now only use one L.

I *suppose* that if we were targeted for helping bolster LMI's warchest [and 
if we decided that it wasn't in our best interests to do so (*)] we could 
claim the dropped "L" was for Linux and call ourselves the "San Gabriel 
Valley Local User Group" -- but then, we might have to let other folks attend 
who would ask questions on how and why blue-screens occur and how to avoid 
them [well, ok, we DO let those sorts of people attend, but the difference is 
that we'd be somehow morally obligated to ANSWER those kinds of questions...]

[and with something other than "install linux" ;) ]

Tom

(*) or, more likely, that we "as a group" wouldn't want the hassle of 
collecting funds for this particular cause -- that would mean we'd have to 
appoint a treasurer and start to enforce some actual structure to the 
group...

-- 
blogref temporarily disabled for the Rabbi's benefit ;)
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