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k-in-new-zealand

The TL;DR is: this was inherited=E2=80=94by surprise=E2=80=94from the previ=
ous owners. We
don=E2=80=99t know their intentions then, but we know ours now. We=E2=80=99=
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

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<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote">2011/11/24 Buster <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;=
<a href=3D"mailto:storypage at gmail.com">storypage at gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><b=
r><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:=
1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

<br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div class=3D"im">2011/11/22 Lori Bowen =
Ayre <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a href=3D"mailto:lori.ayre at galecia.com" target=
=3D"_blank">lori.ayre at galecia.com</a>&gt;</span><br></div><div class=3D"im"=
><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1=
px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">


There has already been plenty of outrage expressed by the Koha community an=
d clearly it hasn&#39;t made a difference.<br></blockquote></div></div><br>=
Oh, I don&#39;t know about that. We investigated Koha and Evergreen for a y=
ear and recently decided to go with community Koha using ByWater Solutions =
as a vendor rather than LibLime largely because of LibLime&#39;s position w=
ithin (or rather, without) the community. That, and the fact its product ha=
s basically become a proprietary system with all the weaknesses and pitfall=
s of such systems. While investigating, we did visit a couple of LibLime cl=
ients who are jumping ship as soon as they are legally able, for many of th=
e same reasons we eschewed it from the git-go.<br>


<br>So, I think it has, in fact, made a difference. People who care do pay =
attention.<br><br></blockquote><div>Some very interesting news.</div><div><=
br></div><div>=C2=A0<a href=3D"http://diligentroom.wordpress.com/2011/11/22=
/the-exemplar-of-stupid-koha-vs-liblime-trademark/#comment-1761">http://dil=
igentroom.wordpress.com/2011/11/22/the-exemplar-of-stupid-koha-vs-liblime-t=
rademark/#comment-1761</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>From Liblime:</div><div>&quot;Here=E2=80=99s PTFS/LibLi=
me=E2=80=99s press release about the matter: <a href=3D"http://www.liblime.=
com/ptfsliblime-granted-provisional-use-of-koha-trademark-in-new-zealand">h=
ttp://www.liblime.com/ptfsliblime-granted-provisional-use-of-koha-trademark=
-in-new-zealand</a></div>

<div><br></div><div>The TL;DR is: this was inherited=E2=80=94by surprise=E2=
=80=94from the previous owners. We don=E2=80=99t know their intentions then=
, but we know ours now. We=E2=80=99ll hand the NZ trademark off to a non-pr=
ofit (including HLT) who agrees to continue our practice of protecting non-=
exclusive use of the name.&quot;</div>

<div><br></div><div>Which sounds great to me, HLT makes that promise (as th=
ey are the community elected body to hold community property and a register=
ed non profit Trust) and PTFS/Liblime can sign over the application. This c=
ould all be resolved in a couple of days time.</div>

<div><br></div><div>I really hope this is true and the application is signe=
d over to HLT as soon as possible so we can put this all behind us.</div><d=
iv><br></div><div>Chris</div></div>

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