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spax, on 08 October 2009, 21:42, said:
Hi Harald,
I was referring to that particular article, not the overall saga. From what I read, it all seems quite factual.
Though, I would take issue with -
"Founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon has been absent from moderating his own community forum for nearly a year and, as a result, the forum has become a mass of porn spam."
- which is clearly untrue. There was a brief period when a lack of moderation allowed a barrage of spam but that statement is over-exagerated.
And this also. -
"the new group quickly completed the long-moribund oscommerce MS2.2"
- If adding a couple of mods and removing a couple of files qualifies as "completed", my MS2.2 is at MS5. And describing MS2.2 as "long-moribund" is an insult to the community.
As for the one-sided bias to Ms Watson's piece, wouldn't it be good to read an article that redressed the balance. Maybe you could pen one yourself. Or better still, you could host a Q&A session.
I was referring to that particular article, not the overall saga. From what I read, it all seems quite factual.
Though, I would take issue with -
"Founder and leader Harald Ponce de Leon has been absent from moderating his own community forum for nearly a year and, as a result, the forum has become a mass of porn spam."
- which is clearly untrue. There was a brief period when a lack of moderation allowed a barrage of spam but that statement is over-exagerated.
And this also. -
"the new group quickly completed the long-moribund oscommerce MS2.2"
- If adding a couple of mods and removing a couple of files qualifies as "completed", my MS2.2 is at MS5. And describing MS2.2 as "long-moribund" is an insult to the community.
As for the one-sided bias to Ms Watson's piece, wouldn't it be good to read an article that redressed the balance. Maybe you could pen one yourself. Or better still, you could host a Q&A session.
One would be naive not to spot the hidden subject of journalist KW journalistic article.
Question should have been asked as to why on 06/10/2009 and not much earlier as it happened or not later until 13/10/2009, published an article listing all but those old, "factual" story lines? If you take off these old story lines, you are left with the hidden subject: to stir up the discontent in the osCommerce community. Here is the factuality she actually tried to convey:
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RA, MD of eV Ltd., noted that legal counsel was engaged to represent Ponce de Leon and not an organization named osCommerce, and that the negotiations were between Ponce de Leon representing his personal ownership of the mark
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The osCommerce community has had little reaction to Ponce de Leon's application for the trademark in his personal name
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If Ponce de Leon wins the EU trademark, he can assert his rights to these domain names and his dominion over other aspects of licensing the osCommerce mark
I for one would not be fooled into yet another plot, conceived, as I would imagine, in a corner of somewhere while sobbing for the total defeat.
The issue is not one that the registration of osCommerce trade mark, it is the abuse of it that angers the whole osCommerce community. If you like you could register it in your own country as, eg, a souvenir, provided you dont set out to take over the official osCommerce where we are now reading/posting freely, and not go out to harasse anothers.
Ali
ps. dont come and critise my english as someone, eg, an Anthony, before you already did and "note" that english was not my first language. Yes indeed, english was my 100th language. Due to a car accidence, I lost all other 99 langusges, ie, from 1st to 99th. ;-)
