JBoss denies running a trademark monopoly | CNET News.com: “BARCELONA, Spain–JBoss has been accused of using its trademark to create a monopoly, but the company insists that it is merely protecting its brand.
Rickard Oberg, who claims to be a co-founder of JBoss, said in a blog last week that JBoss’ trademark policy contradicts the open-source ideology.
‘The use of trademarks, which, in the case of ‘JBoss,’ covers both the product and any related services, to stifle competition is a practice which very much defeats the purpose of open source and FOSS (free and open-source software), and is designed to create a monopoly situation whereby only JBoss Inc. and partners can offer such services, coupled with a pricing strategy that is quite aggressive and far from ‘free,” Oberg wrote.
But Marc Fleury, co-founder and chief executive of JBoss, denied that its trademark policy prevents companies from offering support around open-source products covered by the JBoss trademark.”
(Via Cnet.)
