Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Major announcement

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From: Erwin Rol <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 08 Jun 2006 14:57:00 +0200
On Thu, 2006-06-08 at 02:40 -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> Erwin Rol wrote:
> 
> > Can I conclude from that that is was just a personal "fight" between
> > Gerald and NSI that made him decide to move.
> 
> >From everything I've heard from Gerald, no, that's not what made him
> decide to move.  I'll let him give more details if he wants to.
> 
> > Maybe there should be looked at a way to make
> > "wireshark" more independent from problems like that.
> 
> The "Wireshark" trademark is, for better or worse, owned by CACE.
> 
> I don't know how much it costs to file for a trademark, so I don't know
> how practical it would have been for Gerald, or for the
> Ethereal/Wireshark/whatever community, to do so.

So it is just a matter of time until this drama is going to be repeated,
namely when Gerald leaves CACE and again loses all rights to the project
name. At least I hope that the community will be informed before the
change happens and not after it.

- Erwin


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