Date: 08/21/05 (Open Source)    Keywords: no keywords

If a trademark owner doesn't protect their mark, it loses its meaning and may eventually go lower case -- Xerox becomes xerox. But how can you protect a mark when one of its chief values is that it's given away?

Source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=416&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog