>
> I've just read Tatu Ylonen's email to the OpenSSH developers mailing
> list (article may be found here:
> http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/02/14/1120247&mode=thread) & I was
> wondering what do u think about that.
>
Sounds like his bussiness model is failing.

> IMHO, Tatu Ylonen is certainly right from a legal standpoint but OpenSSH
> has been around for a while so why he rides the legal horses now and not
> before ? maybe because OpenSSH is getting more & more coverage as well
> as user base/usage. I don't deny him his rights (I'm far from being able
> to do that) but well, look Netscape for example. They have created
> LDAP and we have OpenLDAP. There are many open* projects around and for
> me this is sufficient to distinguish between those & proprietary stuff.
>
I think that there is a good chance he could lose his trademark if
he presses this. His relase of an "open" version may negate his ability
to enforce his trademark. Time will tell. If a new name is found for
OpenSSH there could be enough inertia to remove "ssh" from admins
everywhere.

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