[consulting] Sluggishness Concern

Wed Aug 5 17:56:38 UTC 2009

Besides, it was "Veronica", not "Vanessa".

Kristof Van Tomme wrote:
> Except for pointing out the use of Drupal in hotdrupal, it's not our
> job to follow up on the trademark issue. I'm sure that Dries or his
> lawyers will be able to work out a solution with Steve.
>
> Steve doesn't need any "old school" cred: we've been working with
> Steve's company for some time now, and I haven't had anything to
> complain about. To the contrary: they have always been extremely
> responsive those rare times something comes up. I'm sure there's a lot
> of other people out there with similar experiences.
>
> As a project manager, his experience is relevant, even if technologies
> changed. So I think your comment Darrel, even if it's meant playful,
> is misplaced.
>
> Best regards,
> Kristof
>
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> 2009/8/5 Darrel O'Pry <darrel.opry at gmail.com>:
>   
>> <tone is meant to be playful>
>> all right mr antique... just go play with your little friends archie and
>> vanessa and their pet gopher.  Next thing I know you'll be singing the
>> praises of VMS and the wonders of VAX and all it's fun instructions.  You
>> can sit in the closet or anchor a boat like my old 3B2's. Really, who cares
>> about that kind of old school cred. It's very different from current
>> technology and isn't really useful knowledge about you or your company.
>> Unless I'm looking for someone to make my new website render properly in
>> mosaic 0.3.
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 4, 2009 at 11:49 PM, Steve Brown <steve.brown at hotdrupal.com>
>> wrote:
>>     
>>> A little late on this response but I noticed this doing a search of the
>>> company
>>> name (hotdrupal.com) and had to say something :)
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Drupal Association membership does not impart any trademark license of
>>>> any kind.  The use of the "Drupal" trademark is subject to appropriate
>>>> trademark law and depending on the usage a license requirement from Dries
>>>> Buytaert, not from the Association.
>>>>         
>>> No, but we did register our domain and started preparing things about the
>>> same time
>>> the trademark thing was coming up. Before we actively started using the
>>> name I
>>> contacted Dries and let him know what was going on and asked him what to
>>> do.
>>>
>>> So yes, we made sure that Dries was aware of us (and got a response from
>>> him)
>>> before we sold our first account. This was not done as a result of anyone
>>> saying
>>> anything to us, we just noticed the trademark notice pop onto the Drupal
>>> site one
>>> day and said "Hey, we better talk to Dries first because it's the Right
>>> Thing
>>> to do"
>>>
>>> Dries responded and told us not to worry about it. Since then as a company
>>> we have
>>> sponsored the Drupal LA group (not this year, low funds) and one DrupalCon
>>> (DC)
>>> with plans to also sponsor the next US DrupalCon.
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> I have no knowledge of their technical prowess and will make no comment
>>>> in that regard.
>>>>         
>>> I've been doing telecommunication stuff since the early/mid 1980's,
>>> working on
>>> the Internet since 1986, and doing consulting for companies/systems
>>> designed to
>>> do web hosting since the NCSA Mosaic days. Before that, if you remember
>>> WAIS
>>> (wikipedia it,/ Wide Area Information Servers)
>>>
>>> I wonder if anyone here remembers running Mosaic on a Commodore Amiga :)
>>> /
>>>
>>>       
>>>> On Thursday 05 March 2009 1:09:53 pm Steve Rasmussen wrote:
>>>>         
>>>>> / They are a member of Drupal association and have cleared all such
>>>>> legal
>>>>>           
>>> />/ > issues.
>>> />/ > Anyway, I just know they work well and have servers setup with
>>> Drupal in
>>> />/ > mind.
>>> /> >/
>>> />/ > nolimitsude
>>> /> >/
>>> />/ > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:06 AM, Nancy Wichmann /<nan_wich at
>>> bellsouth.net <http://lists.drupal.org/mailman/listinfo/consulting>> wrote:
>>>       
>>>>> / >  Steve Rasmussen wrote:
>>>>>           
>>> /> >/ > > I use hotdrupal.com,
>>> /> >/ >
>>> /> >/ > Although be aware that they will almost certainly run afoul of the
>>> Drupal
>>> /> >/ > Association trademark lawyers.
>>> /> >/ >
>>> /> >/ >
>>> /> >/ >
>>> /> >/ > Nancy
>>> /
>>>
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