Comment 61 for bug 375345

2009/5/16 Savvas Radevic <email address hidden>

> Anzan, I don't think this is related with the bug report above. Please
> stick to the topic or ask questions about ubuntu one:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/ubunet
>
>
I might be wrong but I thought the Ubuntu One name was felt by some to be
confusing because of perspectives regarding what "Ubuntu" might mean as a
trademark and the issue of free (as in speech/source) and closed (as in bar
is closed but I'll give you a beer and if you want more you're going to have
to get really drunk to stomach the long-term costs to what you want to be
able to do).

So if the intention outright is to keep the server backend closed or at
least major "moving parts" of it locked down then this might make views
regarding trademark use more polarizing than if it is seen as a matter of
exploring various possibilities and models of relationships between open and
closed and mixtures thereof and discovering what works.

Which is why I was asking before for some remark from Mark regarding this in
regards to trademark (and Canonical's trade).

(Regarding jokes about naming, If Mark is the indeed the "daddy" of Ubuntu
does this make him Pere Ubu? Or Ubu Roi? Or saurfl? And if so, is the saurfl
code free?)

Ahem. In any case, I would like to have some sense of how hard or soft the
possibilities might be because that might help to open perspectives from
sides that might feel themselves affronted and allow other directions to be
viewed.

But while I am still typing, another question: Does Ubuntu One have
cross-platform aspirations as a venture? Or is it more a matter of making
the "desktop experience" for Ubuntu users more complete and integrated and
shinier than a polished Apple, for example?

Anzan