<div dir="ltr">Yea<br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Fri, Dec 2, 2022 at 2:17 PM Gary Kramlich <<a href="mailto:grim@reaperworld.com">grim@reaperworld.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Greetings,<br>
<br>
As I wrote previously[1] AWS has released a container runtime tool<br>
named Finch[1]. I just got off of a call with Pamela Chestek[3] who<br>
represented GNOME in their trademark case against Groupon[4].<br>
<br>
She suggested that she reach out to their legal team on our behalf in<br>
an informal manner, basically a "we don't want to raise a big stink<br>
about this, but this isn't right" kind of thing. She is imagining that<br>
the developers of the other tool didn't get the name cleared by legal,<br>
and since we both run on the same platform (macOS) and that Finch is<br>
available via the Pidgin HomeBrew package, that they're close enough<br>
that there could be confusion.<br>
<br>
She is estimating 30 minutes to an hour of her time to find the right<br>
contact and get this sent out with an hourly rate of 385 USD. We<br>
wouldn't be on the hook for anything after that, and we can decide the<br>
next steps depending on their response. I just realized I completely<br>
forgot to ask about a retainer, but I can't imagine that'd be<br>
necessary unless this gets much more serious.<br>
<br>
I told her I would get back to her early next week, so I would like<br>
for everyone to respond with a yay to proceed or a nay to do nothing<br>
by Tuesday December 6th at 1800 UTC. See<br>
<a href="https://time.is/1200pm_6_Dec_2022_in_CST/UTC/EST/PST/Tasmania/Christchurch" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://time.is/1200pm_6_Dec_2022_in_CST/UTC/EST/PST/Tasmania/Christchurch</a><br>
for the time in your repective timezones.<br>
<br>
[1] <a href="https://lists.imfreedom.org/pipermail/board/2022-November/000658.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.imfreedom.org/pipermail/board/2022-November/000658.html</a><br>
[2] <a href="https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/opensource/introducing-finch-an-open-source-client-for-container-development/</a><br>
[3] <a href="https://www.chesteklegal.com/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.chesteklegal.com/</a><br>
[4] <a href="https://lwn.net/Articles/619986/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lwn.net/Articles/619986/</a><br>
<br>
Thanks,<br>
<br>
--<br>
Gary Kramlich <<a href="mailto:grim@reaperworld.com" target="_blank">grim@reaperworld.com</a>><br>
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