An nameless reader touts a blog posting up at PC World titled "Trademarks: The Hidden Menace." Keir Thomas asks why open source advocates are keen to suggest patent and copyright reform, yet thoroughly
idioms:in and out ignore the issue of trademarks, which can be just as corrosive to the freedom that open source projects strive to embody. "Even within the Linux community, trademarking can be used as obstructively as copyright and patenting to further trade ends. ... Is this how open source is supposititious to work? 1995 by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. published by houghton mifflin harcourt printing company. all rights reserved.view results from: thesaurus | llc.view results from: dictionary | thesaurus | encyclopedia | all reference | the web
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share this: redistribution? Tight control on who can compile ms-dos and still be able to call it by its proper name? ... Trademarking is almost totally incompatible with the essential freedom offered by open source. Trademarking is a way of severely limiting all use on a scrupulous product to that which you approve of. ... If an open source company embraces trademarks then it embraces this philosophy. On the one hand it advocates freedom, and [on] the other it takes it away."

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