DEBIAN project, non-profit organization SPI (Software in the Public Interest) and Debian.ch, representing the interests of Debian in Switzerland, won Virgins in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), associated with the DEBIAN.Community domain, which has a blog with criticism of the project and its participants.
, unlike the failure of a similar trial, initiated by the Red Hat company regarding the domain of WEMAKEFEDORA.ORG, claims related to Debian.community were recognized as reasonable and made a decision to transfer rights to debian.community to the DEBIAN design. As a formal motive for the transfer of the domain, a violation of the debian trademark is indicated. The author of the site Debian.community announced that he registered a new site to continue publications – “ suicide.fyi ” on which will continue to publish criticism.
DEBIAN.Community and WEMAKEFEDORA.org domains were used by Daniel Pocock to publish criticism regarding participants in Debian, Fedora and Red Hat projects. Such criticism caused discontent among the participants, as it was perceived by some as personal attacks. In the case of the domain of WEMAKEFEDORA.org, the court determined that the activity on the site falls into the category of conscientious use of the brand, since the name Fedora is used by the defendant to identify the site of the site, and the site itself is non -profit and its author is not trying to pass it off for the result of the Red Hat activity or mislead users.
Daniel Gosk previously one was one of the developers of Fedora and Debian and was supported by a number of packages, but as a result of the conflict came into confrontation with the community, began to troll some participants and publish criticism mainly directed against the imposition of a code of conduct, community interference and the community and community interference and promotion of various initiatives conducted by activists of the movement for social justice.
For example, Daniel tried to draw attention to the activities of Molly de Blanc, which, in his opinion, under the guise of promoting the Code of behavior, was engaged in the persecution of disagreements with its point of view and tried to manipulate the behavior of community participants (Molly is the author of the open letter Against Stalman). For his caustic statements, Daniel Paul was blocked on discussion platforms or excluded from among participants in projects such as Debian, Fedora, FSF Europe, Alpine Linux and FoSDem, but continued attacks on his sites.