@vbentley:
From the moment an organisation chooses to register a trademark they are obliged to enforce it or they risk losing it.
https://secureyourtrademark.com/blog/trademark-101-can-lose-trademark/
An organisation cannot write a trademark policy and expect to not have to comply with it themselves. If they do so, they are eroding their own brand.
It is my opinion that the term 'pfSense' can no longer be used interchangeably to describe pfSense® commercial products and the pfSense community editions. Each time pfSense is used to describe the community edition it is diluting its validity to the commercial product. If ESF do not enforce this on their own public forum then they risk the community being able to prove that the use of the mark is more commonly used to describe the community edition than the commercial product. This might be important if installations of the community edition outnumber pfSense® installations.
I am not a fan of RedHat, but I understand why the company decided to distinguish their commercial product from the community edition by creating the FedoraProject.
Are you an attorney?
If you're not an attorney, have you consulted with one on this?
You're wrong, but this is not the venue to explain how.
