[boost] Re: Collecting Users/Usage of Boost (was A more confrontingBoost (long))

From: Loïc Joly (loic.actarus.joly_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-05-29 02:06:50

David Abrahams a écrit :

> I don't think we need to do that kind of diligence.  If we have heard
> from someone who we have reasonable confidence works for the company,
> that should be enough.  If a company asks us to, we can always remove
> mention from the site.  I do think it would be wrong to use a logo
> without special permission from someone in authority, but companies
> don't have any special right to control information about their use of
> Boost.

Well, I'm not sure, but I think that many companies have some very 
strict policies about how their names are used, and even more their logos.

I use boost at work in my company. But I guess that if I told you to use 
this company name, without checking with the company lawers and the 
communication department, I would get into trouble.

What might happen is that many small companies would agree easily, but 
very few big companies, where administrative stuff is more 
"brazil-like". I'm not sure wether seing many name I've never heard of 
and no known name would be good or bad advertising. So I suggest that 
before getting such a page online, it would be good to wait until there 
are enough names, with some well knows ones.

-- 
Loïc