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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">One idea that I have is to raise voices in the community of people with some multiplying influence or reputation.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">I am sure that Envienta does not want to enter the scene with bad reputation.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">I suggest to write a short draft letter stating in a very friendly way that Open Source Ecology is widely recognized and "branded" as the original work of Marcin Jakubowski, which is more real and substantial to me than to stress an Open Source definition which is as you write not shared by the general public.</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Franz Nahrada</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Global Villages Network</font></div>
<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">Vienna, Austria</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">by the way, on the side: in Austria we are having a very nice "scandal" about a university (TU Wien) which decided to protect students designs for refugee housing with a true Open Source License. The professional chamber of Architects lamented that this means "ruining the profession" and they sparked a public debate ...</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">for those fluent in German its a bounty: <a href="http://derstandard.at/2000031774902/Architekten-Protest-gegen-TU-Lehrveranstaltung" target="_blank">http://derstandard.at/2000031774902/Architekten-Protest-gegen-TU-Lehrveranstaltung</a></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Geneva" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Geneva;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;">"First they ignore you, then they fight you, and then you have won".</font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><font face="Arial" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:10pt;color:#000000;"><b>The Open Source Hardware Association Discussion List <<a href="mailto:discuss@lists.oshwa.org">discuss@lists.oshwa.org</a>> schreibt:</b></font></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Thanks for the feedback. I will assume that Envienta is not operating maliciously and request that they do not use Open Source Ecology - in good faith, as team players. </font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">The intent of OSE applying the Open Source Ecology trademark was to prevent anyone from blatantly misusing the Open Source Ecology term - such as by using Open Source Ecology to refer to projects that do not meet the open source definition. Envienta appears to be using </font></span><a href="http://opensourceecology.org/wiki/Why_OSE_Doesn%27t_Support_the_Use_of_Creative_Commons_Non-Commercial_Licenses" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;">NC</font></span></a><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">, which is not an open source pursuant to the open source
definition.</font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">This is fuzzy territory, because few people understand that Open Source has a rigorous definition from </font></span><a href="https://opensource.org/osd-annotated" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;">OSI</font></span></a><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> and </font></span><a href="http://www.oshwa.org/definition/" target="_blank"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;">OSHWA</font></span></a><span
style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"> that means beyond 'something cool.' </font></span></div>
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<div align="left" style="text-align:left;"><span style="background-color:#d0d0d0;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="+0" color="#000000" style="font-family:Times New Roman;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;">Perhaps the 'friendly reminder' could serve as a starting point of discussion on these issues, and I'm sure many people will take the discussion in good faith.</font></span></div>
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