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Subject: RE: [oasis-charter-discuss] Re: Proposed Charter for OASIS Business Document Exchange (BusDox) TC
Seems to me you could avoid all these issues and much confusion
if you just called it BusinessDocs. --Ray From: Pim van der Eijk
[mailto:pvde@sonnenglanz.net] BizDocs: "BIZdocs® Document Management System" http://www.ees.com.tr/?p=002&l=1 Registered Trademark Symbol: "The registered trademark symbol, designated by ® (the circled
"R") and also known as a racol[citation needed] (derived from
Registered & Authorised Company Logo), is a symbol used to provide notice
that the preceding mark is a trademark or service mark that has been registered
with a national trademark office." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Registered_trademark_symbol From: Peter F Brown (OASIS Individual Member)
[mailto:peter-oasis@justbrown.net] I’m a native European English speaker and BusDox just doesn’t do
it for me. I agree with Jon that BizDocs is sharper and clearer, whatever any
feeling there may be about “Biz” being an Americanism… BizDocs doesn’t seem to be a claimed as a service mark or
trademark (registered or not), and certainly isn’t claimed as such by either
e-bizdocs.com or bizdocs.com, the two potential contenders. In the case of E-BizDocs the fact that they have sought
protection of a company slogan as a trademark but explicitly *not* the
name “BizDocs”, would reinforce this PoV… Cheers, Peter From: Pim van der Eijk
[mailto:pvde@sonnenglanz.net] Very funny. (At
least, I'm assuming this is intended to be funny. But I can't
really tell, as I'm not a native speaker of English). You may have noted that some of
the co-proposers of this charter are native speakers of
English. I will check again, but as far as I know it was
one of them that actually proposed this abbreviation. I never
questioned the abbreviation as I only got involved in the discussions when the
abbreviation "BusDox" was already there. FYI, there is also an
OASIS DITA BusDocs SC. http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita-busdocs DITA BusDocs means "DITA
Enterprise Business Documents SC" It looks like the vast
majority of the members of this SC are native speakers of English. A quick Internet search seems to
show that BIZdocs is some trademark, so it would violate the following TC
process rule: "The name of the TC, such
name not to have been previously used for an OASIS TC and not to include any
trademarks or service marks not owned by OASIS". http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/process.php I'm tempted to continue but I
think I should stop here. From: Ray Denenberg,
Library of Congress [mailto:rden@loc.gov] "they will --Ray |
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