Canonical apologizes for the trademark issue

Canonical founder Mark Shuttleworth has apologized for sending a cease and desist notice to the website provider of Fixubuntu.com. Also, promises Shuttleworth that he opponents of the Mir-displayserver not longer as a ‘Tea Party members’ will’.

Writes in his weblog Shuttleworth that a newcomer to Canonical a too aggressive e-mail has been sent to the administrator of the website Fixubuntu.com. On this website describes how through a script of the controversial Dash-search functionality, that may privacy may affect and earlier it was known under the name Amazongate, can be removed. In the e-mail stated that the site administrator Micah fleet monument the brand name of Ubuntu and its logo are not allowed to use. When the site administrator’s e-mail revealed, there arose a storm of criticism.

According to Ubuntu-foreman Shuttleworth uses Canonical normally a very loose attitude towards his trademark. The sent e-mail to Fixubuntu.com by the Canonical-founder, also considered as an error that a programmer might make when writing code.

Shuttleworth writes further that he himself apologized for the characterization of opponents of Canonicals Mir-displayserver as “Tea Party members”. According to Shuttleworth, he wanted to with this qualification, no one to offend but, especially, say some critics, is insufficient would focus on the technology behind Mir. Criticism of Mir is according to Shuttleworth, this is only useful if it relates to the software and not on the already chosen path.