Four years later, Debian finally recaptured the "debian.community" domain name!

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Daniel Pocock It is famous in the open source community “ devil ”, His behavior is controversial . A few years ago, because he was engaged in destruction Debian Reputation and the behavior of the community itself Debian project .

In the period after he was expelled from the project ,Pocock stay “debian.community”  Many provocative and defamatory posts have been posted on the website , Participated in a continuous and extensive retaliatory harassment campaign .

therefore ,Debian project 、Debian Swiss representative organization  Debian.ch, And non-profit organizations SPI Jointly to the World Intellectual Property Organization （WIPO） Brought a lawsuit , Want to take back control of the domain name .

7 month 19 Japan , WIPO decided to support the lawsuit , And ordered Daniel Transfer domain name .

Fight against the major open source communities with one's own strength

Daniel Pocock He is the director of the Swiss Institute of software freedom , Was also a Debian and Fedora Software package maintainer . But because of the imposition of a code of conduct 、 Community intervention , as well as “ Some activists in the movement for social justice ” And so on Debian Community members have clashed .

for example ,Daniel Try to arouse people's concern about Molly de Blanc Focus on （Molly Is the author of the open letter against Stallman ）, In his opinion ,Molly de Blanc Under the pretext of propagating the code of conduct , Harass those who disagree with him , And try to manipulate the behavior of community members .

Because of his caustic comments ,Daniel Pocock Be forbidden to enter the discussion platform or be excluded from Debian、Fedora、FSF Europe、Alpine Linux and FOSDEM And other project participants , But they continue to attack their website .

since 2018 year Daniel Pocock To be expelled from Debian After the project team , He is not only forbidden to participate in any form Debian From the community , And has no right or qualification to represent in any capacity Debian, Including representatives of Debian Developers or Debian Community members .

But he is “debian.community” The content of these posts published on the website not only involves Debian, It also involves Debian Many developers and volunteers . He also continued to win the bid in many of his exchanges and public speeches Debian Members of the community .

This time, ,Debian Community to Daniel Violation Debian Trademark is , Successfully recaptured debian.community domain name , It's a big win . However, earlier this year ,Red Hat Have tried from Daniel Pocock Take it back in your hand WeMakeFedora.org domain name , But it didn't work . Even though Red Hat Have “Fedora” The trademark right of this name , But because Daniel The registered domain name also contains “WeMake”, Therefore, it is considered to be a reasonable use of trademarks ,Red Hat Our request was therefore rejected .

although Daniel be without debian.community domain name , It doesn't seem to affect his interest , Because he has registered a new site “suicide.fyi”, To continue publishing on Debian Criticism .

Reference material ：https://www.solidot.org/story?sid=72264

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