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Moodle cease and desist.
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From: Tony Whitmore <schoolfo...@tonywhitmore.co.uk>
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David Goodwin of WolvesLUG, Pale Purple etc. made a blog post containing
a worrying story about Moodle:
"A friend received a cease and desist letter from someone at moodle.com
moaning about his use of 'Moodle Services', 'Moodle hosting', 'Moodle
training', 'Moodle Consulting' and 'Moodle installation'. It appears
they have a wide ranging trademark. While I understand there is a
benefit to having commercial 'Moodle partners', Moodle has it's roots in
the open source community - it seems rather short termed and defeating
to restrict the online visibility of Moodle related resources."
The full post is at: http://www.codepoets.co.uk/node/193
I know that the idea of Moodle partners has been discussed here before,
but such behaviour really does seem to restrict the ability of companies
to use Moodle on their website (and hence search engines won't pick them
up). Yes, I'm aware of the need to protect a Trademark to keep it valid,
but still...
Tony
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