Received: from PACIFIC-CARRIER-ANNEX.MIT.EDU by po8.MIT.EDU (5.61/4.7) id AA05047; Fri, 28 Aug 98 00:54:19 EDT Received: from web1.lanscape.net by MIT.EDU with SMTP id AA22626; Fri, 28 Aug 98 00:54:19 EDT Received: from localhost (jeff@localhost) by web1.lanscape.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with SMTP id XAA21151; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:54:15 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 23:54:15 -0500 (CDT) From: Jeff Licquia X-Sender: jeff@web1.lanscape.net To: Clemmitt Sigler Cc: pmitros@MIT.EDU, ggd@iplawyers.com Subject: Re: LSA Site In-Reply-To: Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII (Mike taken out. He's had time to respond.) On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Clemmitt Sigler wrote: > On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, Jeff Licquia wrote: > > One thing I thought I should point out: Mike McLagan may have talked to an > > attorney concerning the "Standard Linux" and "Linux" trademarks, but it > > certainly wasn't the attorney who handled the "Linux" trademark issue with > > Della Croce. > > > > How do I know? That attorney was G. Gervaise Davis, quoted by McLagan as > > the lawyer who responded to him from Linux International. Davis was the > > one who handled the Linus/WGS/LI/etc. side of that debate, and who > > eventually got the trademark assigned to Linus. > > There can be no misinterpretation of these words. McLagan said that > the above mentioned G. Gervaise Davis had been hired by him, and had > also given him the advice that the Linux (R) mark was invalid. Does > anyone have an e-mail address or other contact information for Mr. > Davis? I would be happy to talk to him to try and verify what Mr. > McLagan told me in his e-mail. I didn't think so, but I've been wrong before. :-) Davis is at ggd@iplawyers.com. (From the Linux International press release, FWIW.) I'm CC'ing Mr. Davis on this, since I'm sure he'd be interested to hear what people are quoting him as saying. Mr. Davis: Mike McLagan has stated in private E-mail that the lawyer who freed the Linux(R) trademark advised him that the trademark was invalid. As I understand it, that would be you. This would be especially surprising, since you were also quoted by McLagan in other E-mail as advising him that the trademark was not valid. The site where this information could be found (including the full text of the letters) is http://badragaz.ai.mit.edu/lsa/. Look for the letters on the Linux trademark and those from Clemmitt Sigler. I'm sure you (and we all) would like to put this whole LSA thing behind us. But I'm sure you'd agree that lies in such an explosive subject shouldn't be left unanswered; thus my responses. Thanks for all of your help assisting the Linux community.