TLUG vs. GTALUG

[Chris F.A. Johnson]

On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Colin McGregor wrote:

> --- Tony Abou-Assaleh <taa-HInyCGIudOg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I am completely confused now about the differences
>> and the similarities
>> between TLUG and GTALUG. I only joined the community
>> this Sept, coming
>> from nSLUG (Nova Scotia).
>
> I am not a lawyer and I don't even pretend to be one.
> However I gather there were some sort of strange legal
> @#$% regarding the incorporation of the name TLUG (too
> easily confused with the likes of the Toledo and/or
> Tokyo Linux User Groups). So, when officially
> incorporating last year the powers that be had to pick
> a name other other than TLUG. Now the group has been
> known informally as TLUG since it's founding by Laszlo
> Herczeg in 1994, and the TLUG name will likely be
> kicking around for some time to come, but for legal
> purposes we are GTALUG (Greater Toronto Area Linux
> User Group).

      The name is not GTALUG, it is "GTA Linux Users Group
      Organization". I doubt that there would have been any difficulty
      incorporating "Toronto Linux Users Group" (which is not the same
      as TLUG).

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