Re:Geez. (Score 1)

Let me point out that "us thugs" have had the trademark based on common-law trademarks many years. Besides being editors and publishers of Linux Gazette for seven years (editors from Marjorie Richardson to Mike Orr were SSC employees), we sold sponsorships for the site as far back as 1999.

The reason we registered the trademark was to protect it. That is, if we hadn't registered it, someone else could have and the process to establish the rightful owner would have been much more complicated.

I'm sorry that some of the LG volunteers did not see our changes as progress and did not want to work with us to make LG a better site. I respect their right to start their own publication--just not their right to take the name with them.

In the mean time, we are putting a lot of effort into the new site. We are preserving the monthly edition concept but we also think people having to wait a month to see an article or get an answer is not what computers are all about. Based on the survey, the majority of the people responding agree with our direction. Or, more accurately, our direction reflects the input from the majority of the survery responses.