announcement of freerouter

Josh Reynolds josh at kyneticwifi.com
Thu Dec 31 02:07:46 UTC 2015


Hence, my statement of "prior art" and not TM, as they never followed up on
it :)
On Dec 30, 2015 7:57 PM, "Łukasz Bromirski" <lukasz at bromirski.net> wrote:

>
> > On 31 Dec 2015, at 01:54, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 1:29 PM, Mel Beckman <mel at beckman.org> wrote:
> >> Amazing what the proprietary appropriation of a single Word can do :)
> >
> > Yes.... I'm quite bothered by that.   As far as I'm concerned  "Router
> > OS"  refers to whatever operating system drives a router.
>
> I believe Mikrotik is using "RouterOS" and "RouterBOARD" as registered
> trademarks, not generic "router os".
>
> The problem however is, that according to google search (I may be wrong
> here), the trademark was eventually never registered:
>
> https://trademarks.justia.com/771/58/routeros-77158105.html
>
> Anyway, let's concentrate on the source code and solution provided
> (further referred as "meat"), and let parties involved sort out the
> trademarks, copyrights and other issues (further referred as to "slack" ;))
> themselves.
>
> --
> ./
>



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