[186744] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: announcement of freerouter
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Reynolds)
Wed Dec 30 21:07:49 2015
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In-Reply-To: <83F97E97-3439-4ECC-913F-B36B33A76F84@bromirski.net>
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2015 20:07:46 -0600
From: Josh Reynolds <josh@kyneticwifi.com>
To: =?UTF-8?Q?=C5=81ukasz_Bromirski?= <lukasz@bromirski.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>, Mike - st257 <silvertip257@gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Hence, my statement of "prior art" and not TM, as they never followed up on
it :)
On Dec 30, 2015 7:57 PM, "=C5=81ukasz Bromirski" <lukasz@bromirski.net> wro=
te:
>
> > On 31 Dec 2015, at 01:54, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Mel Beckman <mel@beckman.org> wrote:
> >> Amazing what the proprietary appropriation of a single Word can do :)
> >
> > Yes.... I'm quite bothered by that. As far as I'm concerned "Router
> > OS" refers to whatever operating system drives a router.
>
> I believe Mikrotik is using "RouterOS" and "RouterBOARD" as registered
> trademarks, not generic "router os".
>
> The problem however is, that according to google search (I may be wrong
> here), the trademark was eventually never registered:
>
> https://trademarks.justia.com/771/58/routeros-77158105.html
>
> Anyway, let's concentrate on the source code and solution provided
> (further referred as "meat"), and let parties involved sort out the
> trademarks, copyrights and other issues (further referred as to "slack" ;=
))
> themselves.
>
> --
> ./
>
