2011/11/24 Buster <storypage@gmail.com>

2011/11/22 Lori Bowen Ayre <lori.ayre@galecia.com>

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There has already been plenty of outrage expressed by the Koha community and clearly it hasn't made a difference.

Oh, I don't know about that. We investigated Koha and Evergreen for a year and recently decided to go with community Koha using ByWater Solutions as a vendor rather than LibLime largely because of LibLime's position within (or rather, without) the community. That, and the fact its product has basically become a proprietary system with all the weaknesses and pitfalls of such systems. While investigating, we did visit a couple of LibLime clients who are jumping ship as soon as they are legally able, for many of the same reasons we eschewed it from the git-go.

So, I think it has, in fact, made a difference. People who care do pay attention.

Some very interesting news.

http://diligentroom.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-exemplar-of-stupid-koha-vs-...

From Liblime: "Here’s PTFS/LibLime’s press release about the matter: http://www.liblime.com/ptfsliblime-granted-provisional-use-of-koha-trademark...

The TL;DR is: this was inherited—by surprise—from the previous owners. We don’t know their intentions then, but we know ours now. We’ll hand the NZ trademark off to a non-profit (including HLT) who agrees to continue our practice of protecting non-exclusive use of the name." Which sounds great to me, HLT makes that promise (as they are the community elected body to hold community property and a registered non profit Trust) and PTFS/Liblime can sign over the application. This could all be resolved in a couple of days time. I really hope this is true and the application is signed over to HLT as soon as possible so we can put this all behind us. Chris