I find it incredible...
really...
the importance of maintaining our home here some believe to be simply about maintaining the infrastructure or funding whatever...or stopping technoligical attacks on us here.
But the moment the potential for real legal trouble which can seriously cost us which could affordably be avoided...it's a waste of money?
Citing .."why would anyone bother with us?" wow ..that is a low estimation of our value in the greater scheme of things.

Also ...patent trolls becoming trademark trolls?...
they don't have to be the same beast...
and they aren't trademark trolls...they are proficient entities very accomplished at what they do...and they aren't trolls ...they're corporate sharks hunting ..this isn't fear mongering either...they've been doing it a long time and they don't just hunt smaller fish ..they hunt each other...

http://fashionista.com/2015/02/frenc...s-paris-france

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/tech/new...pi4CLjIrjYwW0O

http://www.forbes.com/sites/montebur...-infringement/

these are just a couple big ones I remember...

Why would anyone bother with us?
think of every possible good thing about maemo and what it projects...represents...
and that there is a valuable marketable commodity which is completely.. understandably... covetable .
More so than a complete nonentity getting raked over the coals in a trademark infringement suit

These cases and many many more aren't fear mongering...
they are there in black and white..
.in print.
and most certainly should not be dismissed, waved away as not possible or probable or a waste of monies.
It has as much validity in the necessity of our security as anything else needing attention.

I am not bashing at any who do not wish to safeguard our brand.
Fact is...I respect any here for their decisions and reasons to fund whatever..and believe many things should get funded..