Re: BlueSecurity/Blue Frog

Berny wrote:

> What's all this about stealing names? whose name?

Blue Security is doing business and its main offices are in California
even tho' it originated in Israel.

The California corporation Blue Security is a name that belongs to a La
Jolla CA lock company.

IANAL but here is what one observer had to say:

<snip>
Yet, according to the California Secretary of State, the legal owner of
that _Corporation_Name_, is a locksmith in La Jolla, California, who has
had that name since 1997.  (That information, and the info in the
following 3 paragraphs, can be verified by anyone who cares to, on the
State of California web-site.)

They can't legally have some other name, and be using "Blue Security,
Inc."  as a "doing business as" (DBA) -- what California calls a
"fictitious name" -- because California expressly forbids the use of a
corporate ("Inc.", "Corp.", "Corporation", etc.)  or LLC indicator as
part of a fictitious name.

One cannot legally register a corporate name (whether an in-state
corporation, or an out-of-state one doing business in California) that
is the same name as an existing Calif.  corporation.  One can register a
name that is "similar" only with the written consent of the presently-
registered corporation, _and_ the agreement from the Secretary of State
that the naming would _not_ be unduly confusing to potential customers.

Operating an unregistered business is a violation of California law.

Based on that, alone, Blue Security does appear to be a criminal
operation.
</snip>

They swiped their Blue Frog (software) logo from a SourceForce
(software) application.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin