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Altruism or not - it's a very bad idea to handle rights over open-source trademarks by one US-based organization due to aggressive political interventions from the gov: e.g. gitlab case with discrimination over russian/chinese hires, case with github removing Iran accounts, etc.

Open-source should be extensively distributed over many actors to prevent any government censorship and attacks by political reasons.



None of those cases have anything to do with trademarks. Infrastructure/economic control maybe, but not trademarks.




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