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Discussion: Ultracade and the Mame Trademark
RayB:
Since people seem to like repeating what's already been said... I'll do the same:
Even if he had NOT threatened Marquee printers, etc... Even if all we had seen was his "good intentions"... NO ONE APPOINTED HIM AS THE MAME SHERIFF. It's up to the MAME devs to police illegal sale of their software, and it's up to the individual game companies (or the Software Piracy Association) to police the sale of ROMs.
He also doesn't own the logo, so he's an idiot regardless of any intentions he claims.
unclet:
I like his explanation and I think the Mame community should work with Ultracade and get the logo registered/owned by Mame development.
Lilwolf:
btw, the mame team has asked people to stop really talking about it (mame specific... I think the ebay issue is still up for grabs).
Aaron is doing all the legal stuff and they don't want a bunch of talk about it until then.
It sounds like in the end, Ultracade has offered the mame team the trademark (with conditions). The mame team (nearly them all) are against people using mames name to sell any product (IE mame cabinets... but I would hope they are fine with component items like Oscar mentioning his spinners run great with mame but I don't know).
Another thing to mention. Ultracade (Dave?) sent numerous emails to the mame team offering to help the mame team trademark MAME... but he sent them to very old email addresses from the readme file and never thought the check mame.net... duh...
But all in all. Ultracade is not going after mame itself... especially now... But is going after the commercial use of the mame name....
I still think hes a slime.. but speculation isn't helping... and Aarons website is the place to go for updates....
SirPoonga:
--- Quote from: Lilwolf on February 23, 2005, 01:04:07 pm ---It sounds like in the end, Ultracade has offered the mame team the trademark (with conditions).
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Crazy Cooter:
There is no way anyone should work with this guy.