Re: php.org and www.motherboards.com

At 22:04 13/11/2000, Marko Karppinen wrote:

The only reasonable way to get the domain under the current policy would be to actually go ahead and register the trademark PHP. I feel that Rasmus should do this (it doesn't cost much, and can be even done online at uspto.gov), very much Linus himself owns the Linux trademark.

A trademark application costs a bundle, so I'm not sure it's worth it. If we decide to register a trademark, it'll be under the PHP Group (or Association) name.

I'm afraid that a pending trademark doesn't help with a domain name dispute, so it would be a multi-year wait anyway. But there's no reason to put this off.

Well then, approving a trademark takes ages, so I guess that's not much of an option. I think we may still have hope with clause 3 of the license. It's really pissing me off that I'm actually working for him. And we may also decide to go the way of bad publicity... He is being extremely ungrateful. Zeev -- Zeev Suraski <zeev@zend.com> CTO, Zend Technologies Ltd. http://www.zend.com/