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[Wayne Stambaugh <stambaughw@xxxxxxxxx>]

Everyone please use some discretion when posting about Digikey owning
the kicad.org domain both on this mailing list and irc.  I'm going to be
rather upset if we damage a potential relationship that may turn out to
be mutually beneficial because someone lacks the self control to not say
something inflammatory without having all of the facts.  If you think
there are not any employees from commercial entities like Digikey
lurking on this mailing list or on irc, you are greatly mistaken.  I
have direct evidence to the contrary by the fact that I just receive a
private email from a Digikey employee with a quote from this mailing
list.  Please let's wait and see how this all plays out before we make
any judgements.

On 8/30/2016 10:44 AM, Simon Wells wrote:
> it would be hard to push anything UNLESS they pointed kicad directly
> at their competing product or used it as a forum to discourage people
> from using kicad.
> 
> On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 2:04 AM, firewalker <firew4lker@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> Let's say I had taken kicad.org. Could you legally twist my arm in order to
>> hand it over? Or I could use the address name for everything else that is
>> not pcb software related?
>>
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