Poll Results: Is XML UI Language Trademarkable?

Hello,

  Thanks to everybody for casting your vote to shed a
light on the ongoing XML UI Language (XUL) naming
debate.

  Now on to the poll results:
    
  Q: Do you support Mozilla's claim that XML UI
Language (XUL) is a trademark like Google or Amazon
and not a generic term like RAD, IDE, GUI, DOM or IDL?

  Yes.   - 73 votes (58%)
  No. 	 - 36 votes (29%)
  Don't care. Whatever.   - 8 votes (6%)
  Don't know. I'm not a Lawyer. IMNAL (TM).  - 8 votes
(6%)

  125 votes total


  Q: Do you want to shutdown the XUL Alliance and the
XUL News Wire?

  Yes.   - 28 votes (29%)
  No. 	 - 45 votes (46%)	
  Don't care. Whatever.   - 24 votes (25%)

  97 votes total


  If you want to analyze and discuss the poll results,
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   To get started you might wonna read the comments
posted on the Richmond Post news blog first online @
http://xul.sourceforge.net/post/2004/01/poll_is_xml_ui_language_trademarkable.html


   If I may quote Mathew McBride's single voice of
reason in a sea of insanity:

    My stance is that as long as the first letter in
whatever-gui-markup-language-mozilla-uses stands for
XML, it should be declared a _generic_ term. I think
Mozilla should put an 'M' for Mozilla to make it
_Mozilla_ XML User Interface Language.
   

    Mathew hits the nail. Somehow the Mozilla
die-hards and lawyers forgot during the dot-com mania
craze that XML is all about vendor independence. How
can a single vendor claim XML UI Language for itself?
What's next? How about trademarking Web Services (WS)?
Anyone?
  
  
  Full story @
http://xul.sourceforge.net/post/2004/01/poll_results_is_xml_ui_language_trademarkable.html

  - Gerald


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